Bible Verses About Communication Breakdown

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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.

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

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

Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.