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.
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Ephesians 4:27-31
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4:29 Believers are to learn new patterns of speech to be an encouragement to others (see also 5:3-4, 12).
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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
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