Bible Verses About Wholesome Speech
14 Bible verses about Wholesome Speech to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.