Ephesians 4:29

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

28Let him that steals, steal no more: but rather let labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that has need.

30and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, with which you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

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Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32

Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →

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