communication
What does the Bible say about communication? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
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.
1A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.
6Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.
3O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
2The foolish do not accept words of prudence, unless you say what is already turning in his heart.
18He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.
2The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.
15And the eloquence of my mouth will be so as to please, along with the meditation of my heart, in your sight, forever, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer.
16But avoid profane or empty talk. For these things advance one greatly in impiety.
13Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.
11Whoever speaks a word at an opportune time is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
19In a multitude of speaking, sin will not be lacking. But whoever tempers his lips is most prudent.
12For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
23The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth and add grace to his lips.