Ephesians 4:29

Modern King James Version

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

Cross References

Psalm 45:2

You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured into Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 71:24

My tongue also shall muse on Your righteousness all the day long; for those who seek my evil have turned pale, they are brought to shame.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 15:23

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the righteous send forth knowledge, but the heart of the foolish is not so.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary with a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.

Luke 4:22

And all bore witness to Him and wondered at the gracious words which came out of His mouth. And they said, Is this not Joseph's son?

John 1:37

And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

Romans 14:19

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

Romans 15:2

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good, to building up.

1 Corinthians 14:19

yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Ephesians 4:12

for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

Ephesians 4:16

from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

Colossians 4:6

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, even as you also do.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

1 Peter 3:1

Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the Word, they may also be won without the Word by the conduct of the wives,

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;