communicating with one another
What does the Bible say about communicating with one another? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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6Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.
1A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.
25Because of this, setting aside lying, speak the truth, each one with his neighbor. For we are all part of one another. 26“Be angry, but do not be willing to sin.” Do not let the sun set over your anger. 27Provide no place for the devil. 28Whoever was stealing, let him now not steal, but rather let him labor, working with his hands, doing what is good, so that he may have something to distribute to those who suffer need. 29Let 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.
29Let 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.
18My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.
11Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.
18But what proceeds from the mouth, goes forth from the heart, and those are the things that defile a man. 19For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. 20These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man.”
7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
13Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.