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18 Bible Verses About Communicating With Each Other

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Summary

  • James 1:19 sets three instructions side by side: quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to become angry.
  • Proverbs 18:13 calls answering before listening “folly and shame.”
  • Ephesians 4:29 judges talk by whether it builds up the listener “according to their needs.”
  • Matthew 18:15-17 begins with a private conversation and widens to witnesses and the church only if that conversation fails.
  • Proverbs 11:13 and 26:20 treat gossip as a betrayal of confidence and as fuel for quarrels.

The Bible’s instructions for two people talking to each other cover listening, answering, raising a fault and keeping a confidence. James 1:19 and Proverbs 18:13 put listening first, Matthew 18:15 takes a grievance to the person concerned before anyone else, and Proverbs 11:13 sets the gossip against the person who keeps a secret. Eight of the verses come from Proverbs, which sets the wise speaker beside the fool and the gossip. The New Testament letters apply the same concerns to…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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