Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Proverbs 10:31-32
The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom but the perverted tongue will be destroyed.
Proverbs 15:2-4
The tongue of the wise uses knowledge properly. The mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous reflects on wisdom. His tongue speaks what is fair.
Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. The righteous will depart from trouble.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, the heart of the foolish does not.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken at the right time, how good it is!
Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart will be called sensible. The sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.
Matthew 5:16
Likewise, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 12:34-37
You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Romans 3:13-14
Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9)
1 Corinthians 14:19
Yet in the congregation I would rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Ephesians 4:16
The entire body is properly framed and fitted together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each individual part. It makes the body increase by building itself in love.
Ephesians 5:3-4
Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.
Colossians 3:8-9
Now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech out of your mouth.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Comfort each other and strengthen one another as you are doing.
James 3:2-8
We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.
1 Peter 3:1
In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. Even if your husband does not obey God's word, he may be won without a word by observing the way you live.
Jude 1:13-16
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
These words that I command you this day must be in your heart.
Psalm 5:9
There is nothing truthful in what they say! Their inward part is destruction. Their throat is an open grave. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalm 45:2
You are the most handsome of men. You are an eloquent speaker. God has blessed you forever.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue makes up wickedness. It is like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.
Psalm 71:17-18
O God, You taught me from my youth, and I still declare your wondrous deeds.
Psalm 71:24
My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long. They who want to harm me are disappointed and confounded.
Psalm 73:7-9
Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart's imagination run wild.
Psalm 78:4-5
We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.
Malachi 3:16-18
Those who respected Jehovah spoke to one another, and Jehovah listened to what they had to say. In his presence a memorial record was written down in a book listing those who reverence Jehovah and respect (esteem) (regard) his name.
Luke 4:22
All witnessed this and wondered at the kind words that he spoke. They said: Is this not Joseph's son?
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
1 Peter 2:12
Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation (inspection).
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
Revelation 13:5-6
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to the beast. And authority to act was given to him to continue forty-two months.
Ephesians 4:12
This is for the perfecting (equipping) (preparing) of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ: