27 Bible Verses about Conversation
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Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things. And an evil man out of his evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things.
Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.
But your communication shall be, 'Yea, Yea; Nay, nay': for whatsoever is more than that cometh of evil.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.
But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.
Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren talked with him.
And they were filled full of madness, and communed one with another, what they might do to Jesus.
And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it should be, that should do that.
and they talked together of all these things that had happened. And it chanced, as they communed together, and reasoned, that Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
"And thou, son of man, the children of thy people that talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of their houses, saying one to another, 'Come, let us hear, what word is gone forth from the LORD' -
and the king communed with them. But among them all were found none such as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
How may my lord's servant then talk with my lord? Seeing there is no strength in me, so that I cannot take my breath?"
But they that fear God, say thus one to another, 'The LORD considereth and heareth it. Yea, it is before him a memorial book, written for such as fear the LORD, and remember his name.'
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without the doors, desiring to speak with him.
And they thought in themselves, saying, "Because we have brought no bread with us."
When Jesus understood that, he said unto them, "O ye of little faith, why are your minds cumbered because ye have brought no bread?
And behold, two men talked with him, and they were Moses and Elijah,
And he said unto them, "What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk, and are sad?"
When he was come up again, he brake bread, and tasted, and communed a long while: even till the morning, and so departed.
He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul that he might loose him, wherefore he called him the oftener, and communed with him.
Then spake Festus with deliberation, and answered, "Thou hast appealed unto Caesar: unto Caesar shalt thou go."
But when he went before the LORD to speak with him, he took the covering off until he came out. And he came out and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of his face shone with beams: but Moses put a covering upon his face, until he went in to commune with him.
From Thematic Bible
Conversation » Speech, admonitions concerning
See thou have the example of the wholesome words which thou heardest of me, in faith and love which is in Jesus Christ.
He is wise and discreet that tempereth his words; and he is a man of understanding, that maketh much of his spirit.
But your communication shall be, 'Yea, Yea; Nay, nay': for whatsoever is more than that cometh of evil.
Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.