Ephesians 4:29
Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, that they may be a help to those who hear them.
Colossians 4:6
Let your conversation always be kindly, and seasoned, as it were, with salt; that you may know in each case what answer you ought to give.
Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before the eyes of your fellow men, that, seeing your good actions, they may praise your Father who is in Heaven.
Matthew 12:34-37
You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.
Romans 3:13-14
'Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.' 'The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,'
1 Corinthians 14:19
But at a meeting of the Church I would rather speak five words with my mind, and so teach others, than ten thousand words when using the gift of 'tongues.'
Ephesians 4:16
For from him the whole Body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigor of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.
Ephesians 5:3-4
As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,
Colossians 3:8-9
You, however, must now lay aside all such things--anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the Message of the Christ dwell in your minds in all its wealth, bringing all wisdom with it. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, and hymns, and sacred songs, full of the loving- kindness of God, lifting your hearts in song to him.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another's characters, as indeed you are doing.
James 3:2-8
We often make mistakes, every one of us. Any one who does not make mistakes when speaking is indeed a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body as well.
1 Peter 3:1
Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,
Jude 1:13-16
They are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are 'wandering stars,' for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever.
Luke 4:22
All who were present spoke well of him, and were astonished at the beautiful words that fell from his lips. "Is not he Joseph's son?" they asked.
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!
1 Peter 2:12
Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evil-doers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God 'at the time when he shall visit them.'
2 Peter 2:18
With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.
Revelation 13:5-6
The Beast was given 'a mouth that spoke proudly' and blasphemously, and it was empowered to work its will for forty-two months.
Ephesians 4:12
To fit his People for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the Body of the Christ.