Ephesians 4:29

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Ephesians 4:29

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Colossians 4:6

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.

Proverbs 10:31-32

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
but a perverse tongue will be cut out.

Proverbs 15:2-4

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive,
but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.

Psalm 37:30-31

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom;
his tongue speaks what is just.

Proverbs 12:13

An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech,
but a righteous one escapes from trouble.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise broadcast knowledge,
but not so the heart of fools.

Proverbs 15:23

A man takes joy in giving an answer;
and a timely word—how good that is!

Proverbs 16:21

Anyone with a wise heart is called discerning,
and pleasant speech increases learning.

Proverbs 25:11-12

A word spoken at the right time
is like gold apples on a silver tray.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious,
but the lips of a fool consume him.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God has given Me
the tongue of those who are instructed
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me each morning;
He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:34-37

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

1 Corinthians 14:19

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.

Ephesians 4:16

From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.

Ephesians 5:3-4

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Colossians 3:8-9

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

Colossians 3:16-17

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

James 3:2-8

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live

Jude 1:13-16

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

Psalm 5:9

For there is nothing reliable in what they say;
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men;
grace flows from your lips.
Therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 52:2

Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.

Psalm 71:17-18

God, You have taught me from my youth,
and I still proclaim Your wonderful works.

Psalm 71:24

Therefore, my tongue will proclaim
Your righteousness all day long,
for those who seek my harm
will be disgraced and confounded.

Psalm 73:7-9

Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Psalm 78:4-5

We must not hide them from their children,
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.

At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name.

Luke 4:22

They were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

1 Corinthians 15:32-33

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Revelation 13:5-6

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.

Ephesians 4:12

for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

No

That which

To the use of edifying

Ephesians 4:12

Minister

Matthew 5:16

1 Peter 2:12

1 Peter 3:1

General references

Psalm 37:30

Bible References

No

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

For there is nothing reliable in what they say;

destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.

Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.

Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.

Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me?

If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act

for 42 months.