27 Bible Verses about Conversation
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Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.
But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.
But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him.
And there came before them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.
And they were wondering among themselves which of them it was who would do this thing.
And they were talking together about all those things which had taken place. And while they were talking and questioning together, Jesus himself came near and went with them.
And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.
And the king had talk with them; and among them all there was no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were given places before the king.
For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body.
Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.
While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him.
And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?
And two men, Moses and Elijah, were talking with him;
And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.
For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.
Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.
But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say;
And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.
From Thematic Bible
Conversation » Speech, admonitions concerning
Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.
But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.