58 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

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. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

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

But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy talk out of 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, that is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary blessing; knowing that you are unto this called, that you should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

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

[A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.] I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

O Lord, open my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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

When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to invoke, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever.

And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

With this bless we God, even the Father; and with this curse we men, who are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall 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.

And Simon Peter answered, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the 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 man.

And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why have you served us thus, that you called us not, when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they did argue with him sharply. And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison to you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Heaviness in the heart of man makes him stoop: but a good word makes him glad.

And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore fear not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

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

There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

She opens her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue is the law of kindness.

For the priest's lips should preserve knowledge, and they should seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these comes from evil.

He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil.

Every man shall kiss his lips who gives a right answer.