"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minis…" — Ephesians 4:29

Ephesians 4:29 · KJV

“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. {to...: or, to edify profitably}”

— Ephesians 4:29

Verse 28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with {his} hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. {to give: or, to distribute}

Verse 30

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Ephesians 4 — Context

Neither give place to the devil.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with {his} hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. {to give: or, to distribute}

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. {to...: or, to edify profitably}

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Cross References

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man's mouth {are} gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. {gracious: Heb. grace}

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish {doeth} not so.

Colossians 3:8-9

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Matthew 12:34-37

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Proverbs 25:11-12

A word fitly spoken {is like} apples of gold in pictures of silver. {fitly...: Heb. spoken upon his wheels}

Psalms 37:30-31

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.