Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Proverbs 10:31-32
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Proverbs 15:2-4
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
Proverbs 15:23
To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
Proverbs 16:21
The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is 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 deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
1 Corinthians 14:19
Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 5:3-4
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness 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 obscene talk from your mouth.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
James 3:2-8
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
Jude 1:13-16
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalm 45:2
You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Psalm 71:17-18
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
Psalm 71:24
And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.
Psalm 73:7-9
Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
Psalm 78:4-5
We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.
Luke 4:22
And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
1 Peter 2:12
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2 Peter 2:18
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
Revelation 13:5-6
And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
Ephesians 4:12
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,