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Bad Words
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 301 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Colossians 3:8 ESV / 260 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 190 helpful votes
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
Matthew 12:36 ESV / 176 helpful votes
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
Psalm 19:14 ESV / 136 helpful votes
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 107 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 90 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Exodus 20:7 ESV / 84 helpful votes
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
James 1:26 ESV / 80 helpful votes
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
Colossians 4:6 ESV / 78 helpful votes
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Luke 6:45 ESV / 69 helpful votes
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 67 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 66 helpful votes
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
James 3:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes
But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:9-10 ESV / 56 helpful votes
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Psalm 39:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
Psalm 119:97 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Romans 12:14 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
John 3:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Joel 2:28 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
James 3:1-6 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! …
Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes
The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
Psalm 119:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes
I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Matthew 15:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes
It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 41 helpful votes
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 5:11-21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. …
Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Proverbs 4:19-21 ESV / 38 helpful votes
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Deuteronomy 5:11 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
James 5:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 34 helpful votes
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
James 3:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Psalm 141:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 31 helpful votes
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes
With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Psalm 109:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes
He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!
Leviticus 19:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes
You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 28 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
John 1:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Matthew 5:22 ESV / 28 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
James 1:21 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Luke 12:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
James 3:9-12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
James 3:1-18 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! …
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Matthew 12:34 ESV / 25 helpful votes
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
John 14:27 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Jeremiah 23:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.
Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes
To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
Psalm 10:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
James 3:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
Titus 3:1-2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
John 6:63 ESV / 23 helpful votes
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:8-10 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Romans 3:13-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” …
Hosea 10:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
James 3:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
John 16:33 ESV / 20 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Luke 6:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 12:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …
Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Genesis 3:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Genesis 3:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
Leviticus 25:44-46 ESV / 14 helpful votes
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Ecclesiastes 7:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
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