Bible Verses About Character & Speech

Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy, does not show off, is not puffed up. It does not behave shamefully, it does not look for its own advantage, it does not lose its temper, and it does not keep a tally of wrongs. It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but shares the joy of the truth. There is nothing love cannot bear, no time when it stops believing or hoping, nothing it cannot endure.

I am giving you a new commandment: love one another. In the same way that I have loved you, you too must love one another.

Be kind to one another and full of compassion. Forgive each other freely, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

Jesus answered him, “’Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’ This command is the great one, the first of all. A second command is of the same kind: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

But I tell you: love your enemies, and pray for the people who persecute you,

Each of you should give the amount you have settled on in your own heart, not with regret and not because you feel you must. God loves a giver who gives gladly.

Most important of all, keep your love for one another strong and unfailing, because love covers a great many sins.

Love never comes to an end. But prophecies will be done away with; tongues will fall silent; knowledge will be done away with.

Dear children, let us love not by what we say or with our tongues, but by what we do and in truth.

The second is this: ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these two.”

Let love guide the way you live, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for our sake, an offering and sacrifice to God, a fragrance that pleased him.

Over all of these put on love, which binds everything together and makes it complete.

Do not act out of rivalry or out of a craving for empty glory. Instead, be humble, and regard each other as standing above yourselves.

The Son of Man himself came, not so that others would serve him, but to serve them and to give his life as the ransom price for many.”

You were called to be free, brothers and sisters. Only do not let your freedom become an opening for the flesh. Instead, through love, be slaves to one another.

Let your gentleness be evident to everyone. The Lord is near.

Make yourselves low before the Lord, and he will raise you high.

Each of you should care not just about your own concerns but about the concerns of others as well.

With you it must be different. If any of you wants to become great, that one must serve the rest of you.

So if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, then you too have a duty to wash each other’s feet.

Humble yourselves, then, under God’s powerful hand, so that he may raise you up when the time is right.

In the same way, you who are younger, submit to the elders. And all of you, tie humility on like a garment in your dealings with one another, because “God stands against the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”

Among yourselves, think in the way that Christ Jesus also thought,

Blessed are the gentle: they will inherit the earth.

Whoever lives honestly walks without fear, but the one who takes crooked roads will be exposed.

The LORD detests lying lips, but people who keep faith are his delight.

Blessed are the pure in heart: they will see God.

Get away from sexual immorality! Whatever other sin someone commits stays outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against their very own body.

because it is written, “You are to be holy, because I am holy.”

For the LORD God is both sun and shield; the LORD gives favor and honor; from those who walk blamelessly he keeps back nothing good.

Who has the right to climb the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in the place of his holiness? Those whose hands are innocent and whose hearts are pure, who have not called on God’s own life to back what is false, and have not sworn an oath to deceive.

so that no one can fault you and you stay pure, God’s children without blemish in the midst of a crooked and distorted generation. Among these people you shine like stars in the world

Let your yes be yes and your no be no. Whatever you add to that comes from the evil one.

So an overseer must be someone no one can fairly criticize: faithful to his one wife, clear-headed, self-controlled, respected, welcoming to guests, able to teach,

The aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience and a faith without pretense.

So then, when you eat, when you drink, whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory.

In the same way the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it boasts of great things. Look how small a flame can set so large a forest on fire!

A twisted person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

Get rid of all bitterness, bursts of temper and anger, all shouting and slander, along with every kind of malice.

Let no rotten word pass your lips. Say only what is good, what builds up and meets the need of the moment, so that your words bring grace to those who hear them.

Instead, as we speak the truth in love, we must grow in every respect into him, the head, Christ.

Bless the people who persecute you. Bless them, and do not curse them.

In all you do, avoid complaining and quarreling,

Let your conversation always be gracious and seasoned with salt, so that you know how to answer each person.

Be sure of this, my dear brothers and sisters. Every person should be eager to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love to talk will eat what it produces.

Whoever watches their mouth and tongue keeps themselves out of trouble.

A gentle reply calms anger, but a hurtful word makes tempers flare.