13
Do not accustom your mouth to coarse, foul language, for it involves sinful speech.
14
Remember your father and mother when you sit among the great, or you may forget yourself in their presence, and behave like a fool through bad habit; then you will wish that you had never been born, and you will curse the day of your birth
15
Those who are accustomed to using abusive language will never become disciplined as long as they live.
16
Two kinds of individuals multiply sins, and a third incurs wrath. Hot passion that blazes like a fire will not be quenched until it burns itself out; one who commits fornication with his near of kin will never cease until the fire burns him up.
17
To a fornicator all bread is sweet; he will never weary until he dies.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.