Bible Verses About Kind Words
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for kind words, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,939 votes, led by Proverbs 16:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Kind Words
Proverbs 16:24309 votes
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 15:1251 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Ephesians 4:29227 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:11146 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Colossians 4:6134 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Job 4:4111 votes
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Proverbs 25:1197 votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs 15:2383 votes
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Psalms 19:1465 votes
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Proverbs 12:1849 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Colossians 3:1248 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Proverbs 15:443 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Galatians 5:22-2341 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Ephesians 4:3240 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Proverbs 18:2139 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
1 Corinthians 13:436 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 31:2635 votes
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Matthew 12:3635 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
1 Peter 3:1535 votes
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Proverbs 12:2533 votes
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Galatians 5:2231 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Luke 6:3530 votes
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
2 Peter 1:727 votes
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
1 John 3:1826 votes
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Proverbs 29:2025 votes
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
What does the Bible say about kind words?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 16:24 on the subject of kind words. Across 2,939 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:1, Ephesians 4:29, 1 Thessalonians 5:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.