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==== 📜 Core Passages Directly Opposing Profanity & Corrupt Speech ====

===== Bible — New Testament (Most Explicit) =====

===== Ephesians 4:29 =====

: “Let 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.”

→ “Corrupt communication” (Greek sapros) literally means rotten, foul, decaying speech.

===== Ephesians 5:4 =====

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

→ This is one of the clearest blanket condemnations of dirty language, crude joking, and vulgar speech.

===== Colossians 3:8 =====

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

→ “Filthy communication” = obscene, abusive, profane speech.

===== James 3:9–10 =====

: “Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men… Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”

→ Directly condemns cursing people, verbal abuse, and contradictory speech.

===== Matthew 12:36 =====

: “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”

→ “Idle” includes careless, harmful, or destructive speech.

===== Matthew 15:11 =====

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

→ Speech reveals inner moral state—words can defile.

===== Luke 6:45 =====

: “For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

→ Profanity is framed as a symptom of the heart, not just vocabulary.