Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. |
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Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. |
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1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: |
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1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. |
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James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. |
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Job 37:19
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. |
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Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: |
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Matthew 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. |
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Proverbs 15:1-2
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. |
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Proverbs 15:4
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. |
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Ephesians 5:4
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. |
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Matthew 12:36
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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James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. |
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Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. |
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James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: |
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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. |
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Proverbs 18:20-21
A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. |