Quotes about Speech
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
- Ephesians 5:4
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Colossians 4:6
But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,
- 2 Timothy 2:16
and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
- Titus 2:8
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- James 1:26
We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
- James 3:2
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
- James 3:6
With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
- James 3:9
Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!
- James 3:10
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
- 1 Peter 3:10
But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
- 2 Peter 2:16
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- 1 John 3:18