20 Bible Verses About Communication: Speaking, Listening and the Tongue

The Bible’s teaching on communication comes down to a few repeated points: listen before you speak, say what is true, and speak to build others up. Proverbs returns to speech again and again, and James gives most of a chapter to the tongue, which he compares to a fire and says no human being can tame (James 3:8). He includes himself: “we all stumble in many ways” (James 3:2). The twenty passages below cover what the tongue does, listening, what…