communications
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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.
6Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.
19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
18He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.
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.
19In a multitude of speaking, sin will not be lacking. But whoever tempers his lips is most prudent.
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;
2The foolish do not accept words of prudence, unless you say what is already turning in his heart.
13Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.
1A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.
3O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
16But avoid profane or empty talk. For these things advance one greatly in impiety.
11Whoever speaks a word at an opportune time is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
2The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whoever values it shall eat from its fruits.
8But now you must set aside all these things: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and indecent speech from your mouth.
23The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth and add grace to his lips.
8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.