Ephesians 5:4

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Ephesians 5:4

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

Ephesians 4:29

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Psalm 92:1

A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.It is good to praise Yahweh,
to sing praise to Your name, Most High,

Romans 1:28

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

Psalm 107:21-22

Let them give thanks to the Lord
for His faithful love
and His wonderful works for all humanity.

Proverbs 12:23

A shrewd person conceals knowledge,
but a foolish heart publicizes stupidity.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive,
but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly,
but the end of his speaking is evil madness.

When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Matthew 12:34-37

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Mark 7:22

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

John 6:23

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

2 Corinthians 1:11

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

2 Corinthians 9:15

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.

Ephesians 1:16

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

Ephesians 5:19-20

speaking to one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing and making music
from your heart to the Lord,

Philippians 4:6

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

Colossians 3:15-17

And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.

1 Thessalonians 3:9

How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Give thanks in everything,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 13:15

Therefore, through Him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess His name.

James 3:4-8

And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

2 Peter 2:7

and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:10

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!

Psalm 33:1

Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones;
praise from the upright is beautiful.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ephesians 5:4

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Convenient

Romans 1:28

Philemon 1:8

But

General references

Exodus 20:14

Bible References

Convenient

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

But

speaking to one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing and making music
from your heart to the Lord,

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones;
praise from the upright is beautiful.

A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.It is good to praise Yahweh,
to sing praise to Your name, Most High,

Let them give thanks to the Lord
for His faithful love
and His wonderful works for all humanity.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.

How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you,

Give thanks in everything,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, through Him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess His name.

General references

Do not commit adultery.