28 Bible Verses about Vulgar Language (KJV)

Here are 28 Bible verses about vulgar language, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Ephesians 4:29 KJV

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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Colossians 3:8 KJV

⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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Exodus 20:7 KJV

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

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Proverbs 13:3 KJV

³He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

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2 Timothy 2:16 KJV

¹⁶But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

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Philippians 3:2 KJV

²Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

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James 3:1-18 KJV

¹My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. ²For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. ³Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. ⁴Behold also the ships, which though …

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Galatians 5:12 KJV

¹²I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

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Philippians 3:8 KJV

⁸Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

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Ezekiel 23:20 KJV

²⁰For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Matthew 23:13-33 KJV

¹³But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. ¹⁴Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. ¹⁵Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, …

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Isaiah 64:6 KJV

⁶But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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Matthew 5:37 KJV

³⁷But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

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James 1:26 KJV

²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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Colossians 3:8-10 KJV

⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. ⁹Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; ¹⁰And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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Ephesians 5:4 KJV

⁴Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

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Luke 6:45 KJV

⁴⁵A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

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Matthew 12:36-37 KJV

³⁶But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ³⁷For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

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Proverbs 21:23 KJV

²³Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

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Proverbs 4:24 KJV

²⁴Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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Psalm 141:3 KJV

³Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

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Psalm 19:14 KJV

¹⁴Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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James 3:10 KJV

¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Matthew 15:11 KJV

¹¹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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Matthew 15:10-11 KJV

¹⁰And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: ¹¹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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Psalm 34:13-14 KJV

¹³Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. ¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

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