Colossians 3:8
"But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth."
Matthew 15:10-11
"And he called the people to him and said to them, 'Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.'"
Ephesians 4:29
"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."
I think that sums it up quite nicely. I don't deserve any credit for looking these up, though. I just copy-pasted off'm Google.
My personal view on the matter is that the words themselves aren't really wrong in themselves. It's how you use them. Like, for instance... "Flak you ya' blit."(I'm sure you could imagine where to place which words) is among the most harsh and negative things you can say to a person. It's not supposed to be in a Christian's character to say such things, which is probably why we're not supposed to say them.
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Dogma said:
"Jesus made all of the commandments and laws of the OT invalid. So even if there was a commandment that said "Though shalt not curse", you wouldn't be specifically obligated to oblige to it as a Christian (unless it was specifically in the NT)."
I respect your views on the old testament, but I felt it necessary to voice my disagreement.
By saying that all of the old laws are invalidated, then it's alright to cheat on one's spouse. It's okay to murder someone. It's totally cool to lie and steal. This doesn't sound like something the God that I believe in would approve of.
When Jesus came, he didn't come to abolish the law, he came to fulfill it so that we could be forgiven of it. A sin's still a sin, but in Christ we're set free from the bondage of it. The only thing to my knowledge that Jesus changed were a bunch of the Leviticusl laws, mostly regarding what one should and should not eat and the strictness of HAVING to do nothing one day a week.
Here's an extra scripture to ponder.
Matthew 22: 34-40
"34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”"
This indicates to me that Jesus approved of the ten commandments.
But, I could be trippin'. You're entitled to think how you wish. That's the glory of free-choice.