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 Ephesians 4
29 Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to use of
edifying, that it may minister grace
unto the hearers.
•Prohibition
•Instruction
•Effect
prohibition
No corrupt communication should come out of your
mouth

• Matthew 15:11 King James Version (KJV)

11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;

but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a

man.
1. Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain
2. Trivializing Terrible Realities
3. Refeerencing Sex and Body in Vulgar Ways
4. Speaking in Mean-Spirited Ways
instruction
Only good things must come out of it
effect
• Edify – to instruct, improve
• Minister (one officiating) grace unto hearers
• Matthew 12:34 King James Version (KJV)
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak

good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the

mouth speaketh.