23 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil.

and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks:

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths: lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits, and having put on the new man, who is renewed into perfect knowledge according to the image of him who created him:

not giving evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary blessing; because unto this you have been called, that you may inherit the blessing. For let the one wishing to love life, and to see good days, cease his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile:

Therefore let us offer to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to his name.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

and every thing whatsoever you may do, in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, He broke, and gave them to His disciples, that they may dispense them; and they presented them to the multitude. And they had a few fishes: and blessing them, He delivered them.

having been rooted and grounded in him, and confirmed in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you.

With it we bless the Lord, even the Father; and with it we scold the people, who have been made after the image of God: out of the same mouth come forth blessing and scolding. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

That if you may confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and may believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: for with the heart it is believed unto righteousness; and with the mouth it is confessed unto salvation.

Therefore every one who shall confess me before the people, I will also confess him before my Father, who is in the heavens. But whosoever may deny me before the people, I will also deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

But I say unto you, that every one who may confess me before the people, the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God. But the one denying me before the people will be denied before the angels of God.

And Simon Peter responding said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.

but sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts: being always ready for an answer to every one asking you a reason for the hope which is in you, but with meekness and fear:

being scandalized, we entreat: we have become as the offscourings of the world, the refuse of all things until now.

But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil, in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,

Let the word of God dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, in all wisdom, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with grace making melody in your hearts to God;

but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:

But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but that which aboundeth more than these is of the evil one.