Ephesians 4:29 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁹ Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for the use of building up, so as to impart what is pleasant to the hearers.

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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.

Ephesians 4:29 Cross References

Psalm 45:2

You are more handsome than the sons of men; Favour has been poured upon Your lips; Therefore Elohim has blessed You forever.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no stability in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 71:24

My tongue, too, utters Your righteousness all day long; For those who have been seeking my evil Have been put to shame, Have become abashed.

Proverbs 12:13

In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare, But the righteous gets out of distress.

Proverbs 15:23

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And how good is a word spoken in its season!

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, But the heart of fools is not so.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise-hearted is called discerning, And sweetness of lips increases learning.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words of a wise man’s mouth show favour, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;

Isaiah 50:4

The Master יהוה  has given Me the tongue of taught ones, that I should know to help the weary with a word. He wakes Me morning by morning, he wakes My ear to hear as taught ones.

Matthew 5:16

“Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens.

Luke 4:22

And all were bearing witness to Him, and marvelled at the pleasant words that came out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Yosĕ

John 1:37

And the two taught ones heard him speaking, and they followed יהושע.

Romans 14:19

So, then, let us pursue the matters of peace and the matters for building up one another.

Romans 15:2

Let each one of us please his neighbour for his good, to build him up.

1 Corinthians 14:19

but in an assembly I wish to 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 set-apart ones, to the work of service to a building up of the body of the Messiah,

Ephesians 4:16

from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Colossians 4:6

Let your word always be with favour, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you ought to answer each one.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, as indeed you do.

1 Peter 2:12

having your behaviour among the gentiles good so that when they speak against you as evil-doers, let them, by observing your good works, esteem Elohim in a day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any are disobedient to the Word, they, without a word, might be won by the behaviour of their wives,

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking arrogant nonsense, they entice – through the lusts of the flesh, through indecencies – the ones who have indeed escaped from those living in delusion,