Bible Verses About Family Communication

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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

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.

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;

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken?

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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

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

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

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

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.