Guard Your Speech

Guard Your Speech (Ephesians 4:29–30)

Introduction:

James 3:5–12 (see also 3:2b)

Matthew 12:33–37

Putting on the New Man with regard to Your Speech:

1) Put Off Corrosive Speech (vs. 29a)

Ephesians 4:25

1 Timothy 5:13

Ephesians 5:3–4

Colossians 3:8; Ephesians 4:26

Matthew 15:11

2) Put On Constructive Speech (vs. 29b)

Ephesians 4:16

Deuteronomy 8:3

Ephesians 4:15

Proverbs 16:21; 15:1–2

Proverbs 25:11–12; 15:23; 12:18; 25:20

Ephesians 4:12–13

2 Timothy 3:16–17

1 Thessalonians 5:14

3) Give Grace to the Hearer (vs. 29c)

Colossians 4:6

Romans 14:19

Psalm 141:3

4) Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit (vs. 30)

Ephesians 4:3–4

Isaiah 63:9–14

Romans 8:23

1 John 3:2–3