Ephesians 4:29

Geneva Bible (1560)

Let no corrupt comunicatio proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to ye vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers.

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  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speach be gracious alwayes, and powdred with salt, that ye may know how to answere euery man.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 The euill man is snared by the wickednesse of his lips, but the iust shall come out of aduersitie.
  • Eccl 10:12 : 12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.
  • Prov 15:2-4 : 2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse. 3 The eyes of the Lorde in euery place beholde the euill and the good. 4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
  • Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A word spoken in his place, is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer. 12 He that reprooueth the wise, and the obedient eare, is as a golden earering and an ornament of fine golde.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement. 31 For the Lawe of his God is in his heart, and his steppes shall not slide.
  • Col 3:8-9 : 8 But now put ye away euen all these things, wrath, anger, maliciousnes, cursed speaking, filthie speaking, out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that yee haue put off the olde man with his workes,
  • Jas 3:2-8 : 2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body. 3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie. 4 Behold also the shippes, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, whither soeuer the gouernour listeth. 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth. 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.
  • Prov 10:31-32 : 31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out. 32 The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.
  • Matt 12:34-37 : 34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things. 36 But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement. 37 For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.
  • Col 3:16-17 : 16 Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome, teaching and admonishing your owne selues, in Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs, singing with a grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoeuer ye shall doe, in worde or deede, doe all in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, giuing thankes to God euen the Father by him.
  • Eph 5:3-4 : 3 But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth Saintes, 4 Neither filthinesse, neither foolish talking, neither iesting, which are things not comely, but rather giuing of thankes.
  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 And haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that they which speake euill of you as of euill doers, may by your good woorkes which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of visitation.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,
  • Luke 4:22 : 22 And all bare him witnes, and wondered at the gracious wordes, which proceeded out of his mouth, and said, Is not this Iosephs sonne?
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
  • Mal 3:16-18 : 16 Then spake they that feared the Lorde, euery one to his neighbour, and the Lorde hearkened & heard it, and a booke of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought vpon his Name. 17 And they shall be to me, sayeth the Lord of hostes, in that day that I shal do this, for a flocke, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his owne sonne that serueth him. 18 Then shall you returne, and discerne betweene the righteous and wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due seaso?
  • Prov 16:21 : 21 The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
  • Ps 73:7-9 : 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish. 8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously. 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lorde God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 By whome al the body being coupled and knit together by euery ioynt, for ye furniture therof (according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of euery part) receiueth increase of the body, vnto the edifying of itselfe in loue.
  • 1 Cor 15:32-33 : 32 If I haue fought with beastes at Ephesus after ye maner of men, what aduantageth it me, if the dead be not raised vp? let vs eate and drinke: for to morowe we shall die. 33 Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.
  • 1 Cor 14:19 : 19 Yet had I rather in the Church to speake fiue wordes with mine vnderstanding, that I might also instruct others, then ten thousande wordes in a strange tongue.
  • Jude 1:13-16 : 13 They are the raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame: they are wandring starres, to whome is reserued the blackenesse of darkenesse for euer. 14 And Enoch also the seuenth from Adam, prophecied of such, saying, Beholde, the Lorde commeth with thousands of his Saints, 15 To giue iudgement against al men, and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deeds, which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which wicked sinners haue spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their owne lustes: Whose mouthes speake proud things, hauing mens persons in admiration, because of aduantage.
  • Ps 71:17-18 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me fro my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes, 18 Yea, euen vnto mine olde age and graie head, O God: forsake me not, vntill I haue declared thine arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them, that shall come.
  • Ps 71:24 : 24 My tongue also shal talke of thy righteousnesse daily: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame, that seeke mine hurt.
  • Ps 78:4-5 : 4 Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, & his wonderful woorkes that he hath done: 5 How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 And these wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe in thine heart. 7 And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp: 8 And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes. 9 Also thou shalt write them vpon ye postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates.
  • Ps 45:2 : 2 Thou art fayrer then the children of men: grace is powred in thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for euer.
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 For the repairing of the Saintes, for the woorke of the ministerie, and for the edification of the bodie of Christ,

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    25Wherefore cast off lying, and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

    26Bee angrie, but sinne not: let not the sunne goe downe vpon your wrath,

    27Neither giue place to the deuill.

    28Let him that stole, steale no more: but let him rather labour, and worke with his handes the thing which is good, that hee may haue to giue vnto him that needeth.

  • Eph 4:30-32
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    30And grieue not the holy Spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed vnto ye day of redemptio

    31Let all bitternesse, and anger, and wrath, crying, and euill speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousnesse.

    32Be ye courteous one to another, & tender hearted, freely forgiuing one another, euen as God for Christes sake, freely forgaue you.

  • Col 4:4-6
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    8And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.

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    8But now put ye away euen all these things, wrath, anger, maliciousnes, cursed speaking, filthie speaking, out of your mouth.

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  • Eph 5:3-4
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    3But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth Saintes,

    4Neither filthinesse, neither foolish talking, neither iesting, which are things not comely, but rather giuing of thankes.

  • 1 Pet 3:9-10
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    9Not rendring euil for euill, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrarywise blesse, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be heires of blessing.

    10For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

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    16Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

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    13Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

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    10Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

  • Matt 12:34-36
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    34O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

    35A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.

    36But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.

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    22That is, that yee cast off, concerning the conuersation in time past, that olde man, which is corrupt through the deceiueable lustes,

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    33Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.

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    4A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • 1 Pet 2:1
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    1Wherefore, laying aside all maliciousnes, and all guile, and dissimulation, and enuie, and all euill speaking,

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    31The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

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    45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

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    37But let your communication be Yea, yea: Nay, nay. For whatsoeuer is more then these, commeth of euill.

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    11If any man speake, let him speake as the wordes of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the abilitie which God ministreth, that God in al things may be glorified through Iesus Christ, to whome is prayse and dominion for euer, and euer, Amen.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19Let vs then followe those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another.

  • Col 2:4
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    4And this I say, lest any man shoulde beguile you with entising wordes:

  • Ps 50:19
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    19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Matt 15:18
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    18But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

  • Job 27:4
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    4My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

  • Col 3:16
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    16Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome, teaching and admonishing your owne selues, in Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs, singing with a grace in your hearts to the Lord.

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    6Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • Luke 6:43
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    43For it is not a good tree that bringeth foorth euill fruite: neither an euill tree, that bringeth foorth good fruite.

  • Jas 1:19
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    19Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

  • Jas 1:21
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    21Wherefore lay apart all filthinesse, and superfluitie of maliciousnesse, and receiue with meekenes the word that is graffed in you, which is able to saue your soules.

  • Heb 12:15
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    15Take heede, that no man fall away from the grace of God: let no roote of bitternes spring vp and trouble you, lest thereby many be defiled.

  • 1 Cor 14:9
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    9So likewise you, by the tongue, except yee vtter wordes that haue signification, howe shall it be vnderstand what is spoken? for ye shal speake in the ayre.

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    11That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

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    12That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.