Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you].
Colossians 4: 6
By long forbearance and calmness of spirit a judge or ruler is persuaded, and soft speech breaks down the most bonelike resistance.
Proverbs 25: 15
He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore associate not with him who talks too freely.
Proverbs 20: 19
A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment--how good it is!
Proverbs 15: 23
For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature.
James 3: 2
My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord; and let all flesh bless (affectionately and gratefully praise) His holy name forever and ever.
Psalm 145: 21
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor; render the truth and pronounce the judgment or verdict that makes for peace in [the courts at] your gates.
Zechariah 8: 16
So Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down. And if He calls you, you shall say, Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 3: 9
Right and just lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.
Proverbs 16: 13
The thoughts of the wicked are shamefully vile and exceedingly offensive to the Lord, but the words of the pure are pleasing words to Him.
Proverbs 15: 26
He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 13: 3
But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.
Matthew 12: 36
[The Servant of God says] The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who is taught].
Isaiah 50: 4
A SOFT answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15: 1
The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of the [self-confident] fool pours out folly.
Proverbs 15: 2
A gentle tongue [with its healing power] is a tree of life, but willful contrariness in it breaks down the spirit.
Proverbs 15: 4
And let your instruction be sound and fit and wise and wholesome, vigorous and irrefutable and above censure, so that the opponent may be put to shame, finding nothing discrediting or evil to say about us.
Titus 2: 8
To slander or abuse or speak evil of no one, to avoid being contentious, to be forbearing (yielding, gentle, and conciliatory), and to show unqualified courtesy toward everybody.
Titus 3: 2
So speak and so act as [people should] who are to be judged under the law of liberty [the moral instruction given by Christ, especially about love].
James 2: 12
But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God's likeness!
James 3: 8-9
A man's [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil].
Proverbs 18: 20
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].
Proverbs 18: 21
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