Ephesians 4:29

Speech should never be corrupting but should build others up and give grace to hearers. Christians are to use words to benefit, not harm.

Cross-references · 38

• Col 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• 1 Th 5:11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
• Eccl 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
• Prov 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
• Col 3:8–9But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Matt 12:34–37O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Prov 25:11–12A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• Jas 3:2–8For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
• Prov 15:2–4The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
• Col 3:16–17Let 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.
• Eph 5:3–4But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Matt 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
• Prov 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
• Isa 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
• Prov 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
• Prov 10:31–32The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Luke 4:22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
• 1 Pet 2:12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• Prov 15:23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
• Ps 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Deut 6:6–9And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
• Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
• Rom 3:13–14Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
• 1 Pet 3:1Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
• 1 Cor 15:32–33If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
• Ps 71:17–18O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
• Eph 4:12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• Mal 3:16–18Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
• Eph 4:16From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
• Ps 73:7–9Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
• Jude 1:13–16Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• Ps 71:24My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
• Ps 45:2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
• Rev 13:5–6And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
• 1 Cor 14:19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
• Ps 78:4–5We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
• 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

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