Top 25 Bible Verses About Soft Words (ESV)

15:1   A soft answer turns away wrath,
    but a harsh word stirs up anger.

6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

18   There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
    but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

4   A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
    but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

24   Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
    sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

27:1 In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

15   With patience a ruler may be persuaded,
    and a soft tongue will break a bone.

4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.

As in all the churches of the saints,

23   Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue
    keeps himself out of trouble.

7 “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,

10   who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
  speak to us smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,