58 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD; my strength and my redeemer.

Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips.

Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers. And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee.

neither filthiness, neither foolish talking, neither jestings, which are not comely: but rather giving of thanks.

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths. Lie not one to another, that the old man with his works be put off, and the new put on; which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that made him:

not rendering evil for evil, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrariwise, bless: remembering that ye are thereunto called, even that ye should be heirs of blessing. If any man long after life, and loveth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile:

What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.

{Of David, when he changed his speech before Abimelech; which drove him away, and he departed} I will always give thanks unto the LORD; his praise shall ever be in my mouth.

And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy righteousness and of thy praise, all the day long.

Open my lips, O LORD, that my mouth may show thy praise.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

And all things, whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

When thou hast eaten therefore and filled thyself, then bless the LORD for the good land which he hath given thee.

And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the LORD, and to repeat, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:

O go your way into his gates then with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name.

O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever.

And ye shall eat and have enough and praise the name of the LORD your God, which hath wrought wonders with you. And my people shall not be in shame forever.

And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, gave thanks, brake, and gave to his disciples, to set before them. And they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes. And he blessed them and commanded them also to be set before them.

and steadfast in the faith, as ye have learned: and therein be plenteous in giving thanks.

In all things give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Therewith bless we God the father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God. Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

For if thou shalt knowledge with thy mouth that Jesus is the Lord, and shalt believe with thine heart that God raised him up from death, thou shalt be safe. For the belief of the heart justifieth: and to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe.

Whosoever therefore shall knowledge me before men, him will I knowledge also before my father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven.

I say unto you, Whosoever confesseth me before men, even him shall the son of man confess also before the angels of God. And he that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

Simon Peter answered, and said, "Thou art Christ, the son of the living God."

Wherefore I declare unto you that no man speaking in the spirit of God defieth Jesus. Also no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy ghost.

Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

And the men of Ephraim said unto him, "Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledest us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites?" And they chode with him a good. And he said unto them, "What deed have I done like unto yours: are not the clusters of Ephraim better than the wine harvest of Abiezer? God hath delivered into your hands the lords of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do like as you have done?" And then their spirits abated from off him, when he had said that.

The lips of the righteous are occupied in acceptable things; but the mouth of the ungodly taketh them to the worst.

A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.

Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.

Then Daniel enquired Arioch the king's steward, of the judgment and sentence that was gone forth already to kill such as were wise at Babylon. He answered, and said to Arioch, being then the king's deputy, "Why hath the king proclaimed so cruel a sentence?" So Arioch told Daniel the matter. Upon this, went Daniel up, and desired the king, that he might have leisure to show the king the interpretation:

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

Heaviness discourageth the heart of man, but a good word maketh it glad again.

And Joseph said unto them, "Fear not, for am not I under God? Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive. Fear not therefore, for I will care for you and for your children." And he spake kindly unto them.

Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands. Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees.

We are evil spoken of, and we pray. We are made as it were the filthiness of the world, the offscouring of all things, even unto this time.

But the servant of the Lord must not strive: but must be peaceable unto all men, and apt to teach, and one that can suffer the evil in meekness, and can inform them that resist - if that God at any time will give them repentance for to know the truth -

Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdom. Teach and exhort your own selves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs which have favour with them, singing in your hearts to the Lord.

A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.

A wise tongue commendeth knowledge; a foolish mouth babbleth out nothing but foolishness.

A mouth of understanding is more worth than gold, many precious stones, and costly Jewels.

A word spoken in due season, is like apples of gold in a silver dish. The correction of the wise is, to an obedient ear, a golden chain and a Jewel of gold.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of grace.

For the priest's lips should be sure knowledge, that men may seek the law at his mouth, for he is a messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ,

He is wise and discreet that tempereth his words; and he is a man of understanding, that maketh much of his spirit.

A righteous man museth in his mind how to do good; but the mind of the ungodly imagineth how he may do harm.

He that giveth sentence in a matter before he hear it, is a fool, and worthy to be confounded.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

But your communication shall be, 'Yea, Yea; Nay, nay': for whatsoever is more than that cometh of evil.

Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart. He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.

Let the righteous rather smite me friendly, and reprove me: so will I take it as though he had poured oil on my head; it shall not hurt my head. Yea, I will pray yet for their wickedness.

He maketh himself to be well loved, that giveth a good answer.