Ephesians 4:29

New King James Version

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Cross References

Psalm 45:2

You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Psalm 5:9

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

Psalm 52:2

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

Psalm 71:24

My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long; For they are confounded, For they are brought to shame Who seek my hurt.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will come through trouble.

Proverbs 15:23

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

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, But the heart of the fool does not do so.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise in heart will be called prudent, And sweetness of the lips increases learning.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up;

Isaiah 50:4

“The Lord God has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My 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 in heaven.

Luke 4:22

So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

John 1:37

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

Romans 14:19

Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.

Romans 15:2

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.

1 Corinthians 14:19

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Ephesians 4:12

for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,

Ephesians 4:16

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

Colossians 4:6

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:1

Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.