58 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O Jehovah, my Rock and my Redeemer.

You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.

To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed until the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Put away from you a wicked mouth, and devious lips put far from you.

neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

But now also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing. For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Who is the man that desires life, and loves days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

By Him, then, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing His name.

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Jehovah at all times; His praise always shall be in my mouth.

And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness, of Your praise all the day long.

O Jehovah, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

And you shall eat and be satisfied, then you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has given you.

And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Jehovah, and to record, and to thank and praise Jehovah, the God of Israel:

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

O give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; because His mercy endures forever.

And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of Jehovah your God, who has dealt with you wonderfully; and My people shall never be ashamed.

And He commanded the people to recline on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, and He broke and gave to His disciples to set before them. And they set them before the people. And they had a few fish. And He blessed and commanded them to also serve these.

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

Then everyone who shall confess Me before men, I will confess him before My Father who is in Heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in Heaven.

Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess Me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess him before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

And the men of Ephraim said to him, What is this thing you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they rebuked him sharply. And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison to you? Then their spirits toward him went away when he had said that.

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing; but the mouth of the wicked what is contrary.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Then Daniel answered with counsel and insight to Arioch the chief of the king's executioners, who had gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon. He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. Then Daniel went in and asked of the king that he would give him time, and that he would make known the meaning to the king.

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;

Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad.

And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God? But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive. And now do not fear. I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong. Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

But the servant of the Lord must not strive, but to be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

There is gold and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon a hearing ear.

She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

For the priest's lips should guard knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of Hosts.

But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;

He who has knowledge uses few words; a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

The heart of the righteous studies to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

If one answers a matter before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

But let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no. For whatever is more than these comes from evil.

He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart; he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness; and let him correct me, it is oil on my head, let not my head refuse it; for still my prayer also shall be against their wickedness.

He shall kiss the lips that return right words.