Bible Verses About Emotional Expression

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

And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

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.

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

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

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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

And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

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

And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.

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

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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

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

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

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

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

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

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: