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Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)

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.

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Deuteronomy 6:6 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Psalms 5:9 - 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.
Psalms 37:30 - The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms 45:2 - Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms 52:2 - Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 71:17 - O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Psalms 71:24 - 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.
Psalms 73:7 - Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Psalms 78:4 - We 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.
Proverbs 10:31 - The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 12:13 - The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 15:2 - The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Proverbs 15:7 - The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.
Proverbs 15:23 - A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it]!
Proverbs 16:21 - The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Proverbs 25:11 - A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ecclesiastes 10:12 - The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Isaiah 50:4 - The 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.
Malachi 3:16 - Then 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.
Matthew 5:16 - ‹Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.›
Matthew 12:34 - ‹O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.›
Luke 4:22 - And 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?
John 1:37 - And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
Romans 3:13 - Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
1 Corinthians 14:19 - Yet 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.
1 Corinthians 15:32 - 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.
Ephesians 4:12 - For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:16 - From 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.
Ephesians 5:3 - But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Colossians 3:8 - But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Colossians 3:16 - 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.
Colossians 4:6 - Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
James 3:2 - For 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.
1 Peter 2:12 - 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.
1 Peter 3:1 - Likewise, 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;
2 Peter 2:18 - 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.
Jude 1:13 - Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Revelation 13:5 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty [and] two months.

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