24 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers: and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, with which you have been sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

nor obscene language, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming; but rather the cheerful words of. a thankful heart.

But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, ac cording to the image of him that created him;

not repaying evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the other hand, blessing, since you know that for this end you were called, that you might inherit blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile:

Through him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

And he commanded the multitude to recline on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before them: and they set them before the multitude. And they had a few small fishes; and he blessed, and commanded that they also be set before them.

rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

With it we bless God, even the Father: and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.

that if you will confess with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart we believe, in order to justification; and with the mouth we make confession, it order to salvation.

"Whoever, therefore, will confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever will deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

And I further say to you, Whoever confesses me before men, him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. But he that denies me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

For this reason, I make known to you, that no one, speaking by the Spirit of God, calls Jesus accursed: and no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every one.

but reverence the Lord God in your hearts, and be always ready to answer every one that asks of you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils, in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment of the truth,

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, by teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with gratitude in your hearts to the Lord.

but speaking truthfully in love, we might grow up in all things, into him who is the head, even the Christ,

So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

But let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no; for whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.