But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And that is idle, which is not according to the fact, which is false, which has in it unjust accusation; and some say, that which is vain also, for instance, provoking inordinate laughter, or what is filthy, and immodest, and coarse.
