Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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Ephesians 4:29 · 38 connections
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. …
End of linked passage: Colossians 3:9A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 25:12O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. …
End of linked passage: Matthew 12:37The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 37:31The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 15:4For 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. …
End of linked passage: James 3:8Let 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. …
End of linked passage: Colossians 3:17The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; …
End of linked passage: Ephesians 5:4The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 10:32The 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.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Having 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.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: …
End of linked passage: Deuteronomy 6:9And 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?
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 71:18Then 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. …
End of linked passage: Malachi 3:18Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: …
End of linked passage: Romans 3:14Likewise, 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;
If 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. …
End of linked passage: 1 Corinthians 15:33From 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.
My 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.
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 73:9For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. …
End of linked passage: Jude 1:16And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. …
End of linked passage: Revelation 13:6We 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. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 78:5Yet 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.
For 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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