Ephesians 4:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11

To the use of edifying

Ephesians 4:12

Minister

Matthew 5:16

1 Peter 2:12

1 Peter 3:1

Bible References

No

But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

O ye generations of vipers, how are you, being evil, able to speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.

If after the manner of men I have fought with the wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.

For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body.

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own disgraces; wandering stars, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

and a mouth was given to him speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given unto him to prevail forty-two months.

That which

And they all continued to witness to Him, and wonder at the words of grace proceeding out from His mouth: and say, Is not this the son of Joseph?

but I would rather speak five words in the church with my understanding, so that I may indeed teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Let the word of God dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, in all wisdom, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with grace making melody in your hearts to God;

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.

Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.

To the use of edifying

unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ:

Minister

Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word;