24 Bible Verses about Speech, Positive Aspects Of

Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

nor indecorum and foolish talking, or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth; lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings, and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

not returning evil for evil or railing for railing, but on the contrary blessing [your enemies], because to this you are called, that you may inherit blessing. For he that will love life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

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

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

and whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God [and] Father through him.

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

founded and built up in him, and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

give thanks on every occasion; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to us.

With it bless we the Lord and Father, and with it curse we men made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds a blessing and a curse. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.

For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the mind we believe to righteousness, and with the mouth we confess to salvation.

Every one, therefore, who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father in heaven; and whoever denies me before men, him will I also deny before my Father in heaven.

And I tell you, that whoever shall confess me before men, him will the Son of man confess before the angels of God; but he that has denied me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

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

I assure you, therefore, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil, in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth,

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

but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

But let your speech be, yes, yes, and no, no; for any thing more than this is evil.