What kind of a people ought we to be

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All right, you want to know what the "profane babbling" is. "Profane…shun profane babbling, for they will increase."
Now, the first thing is a "profane babbling, for they shall increase." Now, anything that's just an old—just keeps babbling. The Bible said—Jesus said, "Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no,' for anything more than this will come to sin." You're not supposed even to joke and cut up with one another. God will make you give an account for every idle word that you speak. You know that? The Bible said that you'll have to give an account for every idle word. So what kind of a people ought we to be? People that's frank, stern, loving, kind, and never a bunch of nonsense, always going along…

Daily Bread II Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.