8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Col 4:6 — Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• Deut 6:7 — And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Eph 4:29 — 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.
• Eph 4:29 — 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.
• Jas 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Matt 13:52 — Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
• Prov 5:2 — That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
• Prov 10:11 — The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
• Prov 10:13 — In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
• Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 16:21 — The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
• Prov 20:15 — There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
• Prov 22:18 — For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
• Ps 37:30 — The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.