Unkind words

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• Ephesians 4:29

  Let 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.

• Proverbs 12:18

  There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

• Proverbs 15:1

  A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

• Psalms 141:3

  Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

• Proverbs 15:28

  The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

• Proverbs 18:21

  Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

• James 1:19

  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

• James 3:10

  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

• Matthew 12:35

  A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

• James 3:8

  But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

• Matthew 12:37

  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

• Psalms 34:13

  Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

• Proverbs 13:3

  He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

• Proverbs 15:4

  A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

• Ephesians 4:15

  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: