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.
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Gill's Exposition
And be ye kind one to another,.... Good, affable, courteous; which appears in looks, words, and actions; by looking pleasantly on each other, speaking kindly to one another, and mutually doing every…
Barnes' Notes
Let no corrupt communication proceed - see the notes on 1Co 15:33. The word rendered “corrupt” (σαπρὸς sapros) means bad, decayed, rotten, and is applied to putrid vegetable or animal substances.…
Adam Clarke
Let no corrupt communication - Πας λογος σαπρος. Kypke observes that λογος σαπρος signifies a useless, putrid, unsavory, and obscene word or conversation.
1. Useless, particularly that which has been…
The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the foregoing verses, there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life,…
Cambridge Bible
no corrupt communication Or, better, speech, as R.V. Another moral inference from membership in Christ.
" Corrupt" :lit., "rotten, putrid." The Latin versions render simply sermo malus, and the Gr.…
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