Bible verses about "profanity" | Thomson

¹ therefore I exhort you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God as your rational, religious service;

⁸ be sober, be watchful: because your adversary the devil is walking about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,

²⁹ Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth; nothing but what is good for edification, of such utility as to be a benefit to the hearers.

² and be not conformed to this world; but transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may know experimentally what the will of God is, which is good and acceptable and perfect.

²² Abstain from every appearance of evil.

¹¹ It is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth the man; but it is that which cometh out of the mouth, which defileth the man.

¹⁰ For "whoever desireth life; and loveth to see good days; Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile;

¹³ keep thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking guile:

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they who have the command of it shall eat the fruits thereof.

¹⁶ And repress those profane empty declamations; for they will proceed on to farther impiety;

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so.

³⁶ Now I assure you in respect to every idle word which men shall utter, they shall give an account thereof in a day of judgment.

⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain.