Speech is a wonderful gift from God, but the apostle Paul in various passages reminds believers that sin’s corrupting influence causes us to use God’s good gift to lie to, grumble against, and pass judgment on, one another. Yet in Christ, we are to put those things off. Instead when we talk to one another, our speech must be seasoned with salt, and we should speak to one another with Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. This is how citizens of God’s kingdom ought to speak to one another.