58 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of
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The saying of my mouth and the meditation of my heart shall be for acceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.
Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.
To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting of David. I said, I will watch my way from sinning with my tongue: I will watch for my mouth with a muzzle while yet the unjust one is before me.
Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing. And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:
Turn away from thee perverseness of mouth, and frowardness of lips remove far oft from thee.
And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.
And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth. Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:
Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise. For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:
Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good? Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.
To David in his changing his understanding before A bimelech; and he will drive him out, and he will go. I will praise Jehovah in all time: always his praise in my mouth.
My tongue shall speak of thy justice, thy praise all the day.
And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:
And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
And thou atest and wert satisfied, and didst bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he gave to thee.
And he will give before the ark of Jehovah from the Levites serving, and for keeping in remembrance, and to confess and to praise to Jehovah God of Israel.
Come ye into his gates with confession, his enclosures with praise: confess ye to him, praise his name.
And eating, ye ate and were satisfied, and ye praised the name of Jehovah your God who did wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed forever.
And he enjoined to the crowd to recline upon the earth: and having taken the seven loaves, having returned thanks, he brake, and he gave to his disciples that they might set before.; and they set before the crowd. And they had a few little fishes: and having praised, he spake to set them also before.
Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.
In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.
For if thou confess in thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart is believed for justice: and with the mouth is confessed for salvation.
Every one therefore who shall agree with me before men, I also will agree with him before my Father, him in the heavens. But whoever should deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father, him in the heavens.
And I say to you, Every one who should acknowledge in me before men, also the Son of man will acknowledge in him before the messengers of God. And he having denied me before men, shall he denied before the messengers of God.
Wherefore I make known to you, that none speaking in the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema: and none can say Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit.
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
And the men of Ephraim will say to him, Why didst thou this word to us, that thou calledst not to us when thou wentest to war against Midian? and they will contend with him with strength. And he will say to them, What now did I according to you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim good above the vintage of Abi-Ezer? Into your hand God gave the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do according to you? Then was their spirit relaxed from over him in his speaking this word.
The lips of the just one shall know acceptance: and the mouth of the unjust, perverseness.
A soft answer will turn away wrath, and a word of pain will bring up anger.
At that time Daniel turned back counsel and reason to Arioch, leader of the king's executioners, that went forth to kill to the wise of Babel: He answered and said to Arioch the king's ruler, For what the severe edict from before the king? Then Arioch made known the word to Daniel. And Daniel went up and sought from the king that he will give time for it, and to show to the king the interpretation.
And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:
Fear in the heart of a man will bow it down: and a good word will gladden it
And Joseph will say to them, Ye shall not fear, for I am for God. And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people. And now ye shall not fear: I will give you to eat, and your little ones. And he will comfort them, and will speak to their hearts.
Behold, thou didst instruct many, and thou wilt strengthen the weak hands. Thy words will raise up the weak and thou wilt strengthen the bent knees.
Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.
And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil, In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;
Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
The tongue of the wise will make knowledge good: and the mouth of the foolish will gush forth folly.
There is gold and a multitude of pearls: and a precious vessel the lips of knowledge.
Apples of gold in images of silver is the word spoken upon its wheels. An earring of gold and a necklace of gold, the wise one reproving upon the hearing ear.
For the lips of the priest shall watch knowledge, and they shall seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of armies.
And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:
He withholding his words will shew knowledge: I man of understanding is a cool spirit
The heart of the just one shall meditate to answer: and the mouth of the unjust shall gush out evil.
He turning back the word before he shall hear it, is folly and shame to him.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart. Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.
The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils.
He shall kiss the lips turning back right words.
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