There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:18A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 21:23Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 25:15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Proverbs 29:11A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Matthew 12:36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Luke 17:2It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Ephesians 4:15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ephesians 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians 4:29Let 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.
Ephesians 4:29Let 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.
Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Colossians 3:8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
2 Timothy 2:24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
1 Peter 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1 John 4:11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.