One woman used a passage of Scripture to make a powerful argument against swearing and using foul language. She swiftly made her insightful and powerful point about cussing, pointing to a specific verse in the New Testament. Watch the video to hear what the young woman had to say about swearing.

The tongue and the mouth must be watched closely. The words we say can and do have a tremendous and lasting impact on those around us. They can be used to build one another up and to viciously and ruthlessly cut someone down. The Bible repeatedly references the danger and power of the tongue and how it must be harnessed and watched.

In the short clip on YouTube, a man and woman discuss whether Christians should use foul language. The woman brings up the subject, asking the man what he believes.

The man in the video responds, “It’s your intent on how you’re using it” that matters most. He adds, “I have to change now because God put me in a place to be speaking.”

However, before moving on, the woman points to a story in the New Testament, when Peter denied knowing Jesus on three separate occasions. Specifically, she points to a verse in Matthew, which mentions the third and final time Peter lied and said he did know Jesus Christ.

“So, you know the moment when Peter denies Jesus 3 times, right?” she asks. “Yeah, three times people come up to him, ‘Do you know Jesus? You were just with Him. I saw you with him. You’re a Jew, like you have to be with Him.’

It was what Peter said and did during his third denial that really struck her.

“And he says, three times, ‘No, I don’t know Him. No, I don’t know Him.’ The third time, he, it says that ‘Peter curses and says, I do not know this man.’ So, in the moment where he was trying to separate himself from Jesus and no longer identify as a follower of Jesus, he cursed. He used some kind of foul language. And that’s what really got me in saying, ‘When I do use foul language, as annoying as it is when I do, I’m separating myself from the character of Jesus.’”

Ephesians 4:29 “Let not corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.”