Ephesians 4:29
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building others up according to the need of the moment, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 12:34-37
You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Romans 3:13-14
"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to practice deceit." "The poison of asps is under their lips."
1 Corinthians 14:19
but in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each part, causes the growth of the body and builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 5:3-4
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Colossians 3:8-9
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
James 3:2-8
For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
1 Peter 3:1
You wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives,
Jude 1:13-16
wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Luke 4:22
And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
1 Peter 2:12
Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.
Revelation 13:5-6
And the beast was given a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
Ephesians 4:12
to equip the saints for the work of service, for the building up of the body of Christ;