Ephesians 4:29
{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.
Proverbs 10:31-32
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.
Proverbs 15:2-4
The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly.
Psalm 37:30-31
[The] mouth of [the] righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Proverbs 12:13
By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy [belongs] to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good [it is]!
Proverbs 16:21
The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.
Proverbs 25:11-12
Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The wise man [wins] favor by the words of his mouth, but the fool is devoured by his own lips.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me [the] tongue of pupil, to know how to help [the] weary [with] a word. He awakens {morning by morning}, awakens an ear for me to listen as [do] the pupils.
Matthew 5:16
In the [same] way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 12:34-37
Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Romans 3:13-14
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
1 Corinthians 14:19
but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other [people], than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.
Ephesians 5:3-4
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
Colossians 3:8-9
But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, [and] spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you 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 individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.
1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,
Jude 1:13-16
wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
And these words that I am commanding you {today} shall be on your heart.
Psalm 5:9
For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
Psalm 45:2
You are [the most] handsome of [the] sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 71:17-18
O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 71:24
My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.
Psalm 73:7-9
Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.
Psalm 78:4-5
We will not hide [them] from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.
Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who revered Yahweh spoke {with one another}. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written {before him} of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name.
Luke 4:22
And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, "Is this man not the son of Joseph?"
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
1 Peter 2:12
maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.
2 Peter 2:18
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
Revelation 13:5-6
And a mouth was given to him speaking great [things] and blasphemies, and authority to act was given to him [for] forty-two months.
Ephesians 4:12
for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ,