To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.
Whoever gives an honest answer kisses the lips.
And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
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