Bible Verses About Interpersonal Communication

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

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;

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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.

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.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

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

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

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

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.