Bible Verses About Conversation
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for conversation, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 429 votes, led by Ephesians 4:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Conversation
Ephesians 4:2966 votes
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.
Colossians 4:653 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
1 Peter 1:1535 votes
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Ephesians 4:2226 votes
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Romans 16:1724 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Psalms 50:2319 votes
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Ephesians 2:318 votes
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
James 3:1317 votes
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.
2 John 1:7-1116 votes
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Philippians 3:2015 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Timothy 4:1215 votes
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.
1 Timothy 6:3-515 votes
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1 Peter 1:1614 votes
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Amos 3:312 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Colossians 3:812 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Ephesians 5:1111 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Philippians 1:2711 votes
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;
Romans 1:1610 votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
2 Thessalonians 3:1510 votes
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Titus 3:210 votes
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Hebrews 13:510 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
1 Peter 3:1610 votes
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
What does the Bible say about conversation?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:29 on the subject of conversation. Across 429 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 4:6, 1 Peter 1:15, Ephesians 4:22. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.