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==== 📜 Old Testament Passages Addressing Speech & Profanity ====

===== Exodus 20:7 =====

: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”

→ This is the foundational prohibition against using God’s name flippantly, angrily, or profanely.

===== Leviticus 19:12 =====

: “And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God.”

→ Explicit use of the word “profane.”

===== Psalm 34:13 =====

: “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”

===== Psalm 141:3 =====

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

→ A prayer against uncontrolled speech.

===== Proverbs 4:24 =====

: “Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”

→ “Perverse” includes twisted, corrupt, abusive speech.

===== Proverbs 13:3 =====

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

===== Proverbs 15:4 =====

: “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.”

===== Proverbs 21:23 =====

: “Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”