Is cussing a sin?

[TonyChanYT]

Yes, Colossians 3:

8 But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.

2 Timothy 2:

16 Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness.

Matthew 5:

22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Ephesians 4:

29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

Focus on the positive words for building up, instead of negative words for tearing down.

Jesus gave a warning in Matthew 12:

36 I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

I am not just advising this; I practice this. I didn't let my kids use words like "dang", "freaking", "shit", "fuck" etc. and when other people use these words, don't let these words affect you emotionally.

By nature, I have never cussed in my life in Chinese or English even when I was a kid before I became a Christian. My parents and my teachers never taught me not to swear. I just didn't feel the need for it. However, there were a few rare occasions in my adult life when I did swear because I lost control. I regretted every one of them immediately afterward.

Is it alright to listen to music with bad language?

I don't think so. Music affects your spirit.

 

[Lambano]

Is cussing a sin?​

Hell, no!

 

[thelord's_pearl]

yes swear words are sin but I wonder what about the non clear-cut words like 'damn', is it a sin to say that?

 

[TonyChanYT]

Is cussing a sin?​

Hell, no!

verse?

 

[TheOneHeLoves]

verse?

I would not start with this person, Clearly he just wants to start mess.

 

[Jim C]

Yes, Colossians 3:


2 Timothy 2:


Matthew 5:


Ephesians 4:


Focus on the positive words for building up, instead of negative words for tearing down.

Jesus gave a warning in Matthew 12:


I am not just advising this; I practice this. I didn't let my kids use words like "dang", "freaking", "shit", "fuck" etc. and when other people use these words, don't let these words affect you emotionally.

By nature, I have never cussed in my life in Chinese or English even when I was a kid before I became a Christian. My parents and my teachers never taught me not to swear. I just didn't feel the need for it. However, there were a few rare occasions in my adult life when I did swear because I lost control. I regretted every one of them immediately afterward.

Is it alright to listen to music with bad language?

I don't think so. Music affects your spirit.

Never really understood the whole idea of cuss words. Words are just sounds given a particular meaning. What is the difference then between darn and damn, for instance?
Both essentially mean the same thing yet one is considered foul. If you really get down to it, it's not the word that's the problem but the idea/meaning behind it.

Oddly enough, the most taboo word in our language technically an acronym. Be it for "fornication under command of the king", "for unlawful carnal knowledge", or even "filed under Captain Kangaroo". Still, just a sound with the same meaning as the socially acceptable "Intercourse".

All that said, the Bible says there is foul language so that's that.

 

[Lambano]

verse?

Oh, the Bible has a long history of cursing and reviling our fellow man:

12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! (Galatians 5:12 NIV)

20 Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God’s gift with money! (Acts 8:20 CEB)

3 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! (Acts 23:3 NASB)

8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him! (Galatians 1:8 CSB)

... and my personal favorite:

27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? (2 Kings 18:27 KJV)

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

Sin is to do with the intentions being evil in fact.

The Devil himself would never cuss would he ?

I know many people who do not cuss, but they are the worst people i have ever come across, evil to the core.

 

[Lambano]

I've always been fascinated by cussing. Why do certain words in certain languages provide emotional release? Why are they forbidden?

I had the weekend off while I was in South Korea on a business trip and was strolling along the streets of Seoul. There was a concert going on in the old Olympic stadium, and between songs, the singer would go into some monologue. I don't know 5 words of Korean, so I had no idea what she was saying, but then I was shocked to hear F-bombs and the S-word and G.D. and so on. I asked my host about it, and he said that Korean doesn't have the concept of taboo words, so they use the English ones. Cuss words. One of America's leading exports.

German has cuss words. Some correlate with similar English expressions, but others are unique to German, and some English cuss words (like the F-bomb) don't have German equivalents.

So what makes these words taboo? It seems to be a culture-relative thing, not an absolute moral issue. The only Biblical word that is specifically taboo is the covenant name of God, יְהוָה. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. (Exodus 20:7 / Deuteronomy 5:11)

 

[Lambano]

Oddly enough, the most taboo word in our language technically an acronym. Be it for "fornication under command of the king", "for unlawful carnal knowledge", or even "filed under Captain Kangaroo". Still, just a sound with the same meaning as the socially acceptable "Intercourse".

"Thou shalt not take the name of sexual intercourse in vain." Maybe our culture needs to stop worshipping Aphrodite.

Had to smile at the Captain Kangaroo reference.

 

[Bob Estey]

Yes, Colossians 3:


2 Timothy 2:


Matthew 5:


Ephesians 4:


Focus on the positive words for building up, instead of negative words for tearing down.

Jesus gave a warning in Matthew 12:


I am not just advising this; I practice this. I didn't let my kids use words like "dang", "freaking", "shit", "fuck" etc. and when other people use these words, don't let these words affect you emotionally.

By nature, I have never cussed in my life in Chinese or English even when I was a kid before I became a Christian. My parents and my teachers never taught me not to swear. I just didn't feel the need for it. However, there were a few rare occasions in my adult life when I did swear because I lost control. I regretted every one of them immediately afterward.

Is it alright to listen to music with bad language?

I don't think so. Music affects your spirit.

I don't think the Lord wants us to swear. If I were to drop an anvil on my foot, I'm not sure I wouldn't swear, but it's been a long, long time since I last swore, I think.

 

[TonyChanYT]

Oh, the Bible has a long history of cursing and reviling our fellow man:

12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! (Galatians 5:12 NIV)

20 Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God’s gift with money! (Acts 8:20 CEB)

3 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! (Acts 23:3 NASB)

8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him! (Galatians 1:8 CSB)

... and my personal favorite:

27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? (2 Kings 18:27 KJV)

So according to these verses, it is okay for a Christian to say "fuck this" and "fuck that"?

 

[marks]

So according to these verses, it is okay for a Christian to say "f this" and "f that"?

Can we clean up the language on this thread??????

Can we agree that there is in fact "foul speech", and let's avoid that, OK? We all know what you are talking about without repeating these words over and over. Is this how low this forum as come??

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My conclusion . . . curse/cuss words are the product fleshy rebellion against our circumstances.

Either we think we need to vent our fleshy anger, or we think we have to put more force into our expressions or others won't pay attention, or whatever it is, curse/cuss words are the tools we grab when our flesh wants to spew.

The fruit of the Spirit does not include cussing or cursing.

Do you find your word choices to be enobling or degrading?

Much love!

 

[Starise]

I see a small divide between identification of something in slang as compared to cursing. Though generally I avoid even that "identification" as it isn't condusive to most good conversation. There are a few circles I work in where some words considered to be cuss words are really just low level descriptions.
Some expressions are similar in that some will see them as offensive while others will see them as descriptive. At risk of offending I'll use one that was common in one circle of people. " He has his head up his rear end". I was given a demerit for that one once. It is seen as extreme by apparently many believers. It isn't one I commonly use, but that day it slid out. In that other circle of people it would have just gotten a nod which is I guess why I went with it not realizing the people who were in that audience.

 

[DJT_47]

Cusing in-and-of itself is not a sin, just scripturally wrong and contrary to sound Christian conduct, unless the cussing used the Lord's name in vain.

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

Am i offended by the words or the intent ? It's the intent regardless ! not the words.

Years ago in the Pub's such a place was not for women ? why because the blokes want to let their hair down ? but if a woman was present the men had to watch their mouth for other men would be offended if one talked like such around women ?

There was a place from women, but not at the public bar.

Not to mention fights can take place at the bar, due to that being the nature of such a place ?
People could express their own opinion freely once regardless and such was the accepted norm.

No one was offended regarding the bar maid because that's the nature of the Job.

If their was a whore at the bar no one had any regard for such a one.

Homosexuals were fine as a bar man or at the bar even back in the 1970's they were their and not a problem.

Nowadays it's getting like Nazi Germany with radical freaks everywhere dictating what you can say or not, but the intention of such dictating trash is very evil and totally uncalled for. most are just wimps that never grew in to a man in fact. but many talk about pathetic sexual depravity openly as well around anyone regardless, and if i were to say, hey i do not like such an intent that lowers people down to that level, they can turn very violent, not to mention i get same if i do not support gay issues 100%. but That's mainly people from about 40yo and under that have been brainwashed by the Satanic MSM School system and cunning Socialist Governments.

 

[Lambano]

So according to these verses, it is okay for a Christian to say "f*** this" and "f*** that"?

It's not okay on this forum, per the rules we agreed to when we signed up.

But is it a sin? I would take the position that the sin is not in the language itself, but in breaking a promise we made to the CB authorities.

The designation of certain words as taboo is effectively a local custom. Is violating a local custom the same as a sin? Paul certainly tells us, "If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all" (Romans 12:18). You could make a case that this admonition includes respecting local customs, except where we must say, "We must obey God rather than men!" (Acts 5:29).

 

[Lambano]

yes swear words are sin but I wonder what about the non clear-cut words like 'damn', is it a sin to say that?

I remember the time I heard "damn" from the pulpit used in the non-theological sense.

We had just lost the dear lady who chaired my Sunday School class after a hard fight with cancer, leaving behind a couple of teen-aged boys. She was a most remarkable woman, a personal friend of my wife, active in the life of our church, full of faith and love. Sometimes the answer to our prayers is "No". The pastor's sermon that sad Sunday started with these words:

"Kathy died.

"Dammit."

I can't judge whether that was a sin or not, but I fully share the feelings thus expressed.

 

[DJT_47]

I remember the time I heard "damn" from the pulpit used in the non-theological sense.

We had just lost the dear lady who chaired my Sunday School class after a hard fight with cancer, leaving behind a couple of teen-aged boys. She was a most remarkable woman, a personal friend of my wife, active in the life of our church, full of faith and love. Sometimes the answer to our prayers is "No". The pastor's sermon that sad Sunday started with these words:

"Kathy died.

"Dammit."

I can't judge whether that was a sin or not, but I fully share the feelings thus expressed.

Just for clarification, cussing and swearing, cuss words and swear words are two different things

 

[Lambano]

Just for clarification, cussing and swearing, cuss words and swear words are two different things

Okay, that's curious. Could you elaborate on the difference between cuss words and swear words?

I notice a young man in the prayer forum has an issue with swearing oaths. A biblical example would be:

Saul said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you do not die, Jonathan.” (1 Samuel 14:44)​

(Jesus said, "But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one", Matthew 5:37)

There is also the stricter meaning of the term "cursing", meaning to put a curse on somebody, to wish someone ill fate. The Acts 8:20 reference I used in post #7 is a good example:

20 Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God’s gift with money! (Acts 8:20)​

(James writes, "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be so." James 3:9-10)