29Let 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.
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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. …
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-32)The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the Eph. 2:16; there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life, and that both more general (Eph. 4:17-24) and in several particular instances, Eph. 4:25-32. This is solemnly introduced: “ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord ; that is, seeing the matter is as abo…
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