Ephesians 4:29�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.�
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.�
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:�
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
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We teach the kids verse 32...encouraging them to develop positive communication, using kind words and having a forgiving heart at an early age.
Philippians 1:27�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;�
1 Timothy 4:12�Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
James 3:13�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.�
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.�
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace
1 Corinthians 2:1�And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.�
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.�
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.�
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:�
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:�
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:�
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
�9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.�
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.�
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.�
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13�Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.�
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.�
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.�
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?�But we have the mind of Christ.
