But that which is good — Profitable to the speaker and hearers. To the use of edifying — To forward them in repentance, faith, or holiness. That it may minister grace — Be a means of conveying more grace into their hearts. Hence we learn, what discourse is corrupt, as it were stinking in the nostrils of God; namely, all that is not profitable, not edifying, not apt to minister grace to the hearers.

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