A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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.
James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: