23 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye have been sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:

or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving.

but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction. "For he that would love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

By him therefore let us offer a sacrifice of praise perpetually to God, that is the fruit of our lips confessing his name.

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired by purchase; that ye should publish abroad the excellencies of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

And he commanded the multitude to recline in order on the ground: and taking the seven loaves, having given thanks he brake them, and gave to his disciples, that they should set before the people; and they distributed them to the multitude. And they had a few small fishes; and blessing, he commanded to set these also before them.

rooted and built up on him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-wards.

With it we bless God even the Farther; and with the same we curse men, though after the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth goeth forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be thus.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart faith is exercised unto righteousness; and with the mouth is confession made unto salvation.

Every one therefore who shall make confession of me before men, of him will I also make confession before my Father who is in heaven. But whosoever shall disown me before men, him will I also disown before my Father who is in heaven.

But I tell you, Every one who shall confess me before men, him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: but he that disowns me before men, shall be disowned before the angels of God.

Then Simon Peter answering said, Thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

Wherefore I advertise you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call Jesus anathema: and no man can say, Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which is in you with meekness and fear:

being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.

And a servant of the Lord ought not to quarrel; but to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, forbearing, with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord.

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

But let your discourse be, Yea, yea; No, no: for all addition to these is from the wicked one.