Ephesians 4:29
Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.
Colossians 4:6
let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.
Matthew 5:16
So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 12:34-37
You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.
Romans 3:13-14
Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips.
1 Corinthians 14:19
but in church I would rather say five words with my own mind for the instruction of other people than ten thousand words in a 'tongue.'
Ephesians 4:16
as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.
Ephesians 5:3-4
Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;
Colossians 3:8-9
but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other ??as indeed you are doing.
James 3:2-8
We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.
1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,
Jude 1:13-16
wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.
Luke 4:22
All spoke well of him and marvelled at the gracious words that came from his lips; they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!
1 Peter 2:12
Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.
2 Peter 2:18
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
Revelation 13:5-6
He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months;
Ephesians 4:12
for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,