Ephesians 4:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God's favor) to those who hear it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

Common English Bible

²⁹ Don’t let any foul words come out of your mouth. Only say what is helpful when it is needed for building up the community so that it benefits those who hear what you say.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth; but that which is good, to the edification of faith, that it may administer grace to the hearers.

Ephesians 4:29 Cross References

Psalm 45:2

Thou art fairer than the children of men; Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 71:24

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: For they are ashamed, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.

Proverbs 12:13

In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man: But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 15:23

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth: And a word in due season, how good is it!

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: But the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise in heart shall be called prudent: And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

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 GODhath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

Matthew 5:16

Even so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Luke 4:22

And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace 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 14:19

So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

Romans 15:2

Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, unto edifying.

1 Corinthians 14:19

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Ephesians 4:12

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

Ephesians 4:16

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

1 Peter 2:12

having your behaviour seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:1

In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives;

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;