New Revised Standard Version
and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.

Contemporary English Version
Use clean language that no one can criticize. Do this, and your enemies will be too ashamed to say anything against you.

New American Bible
and sound speech that cannot be criticized, so that the opponent will be put to shame without anything bad to say about us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sound word that can not be blamed: that he who is on the contrary part may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.

The sound word that can not be blamed: that he who is on the contrary part may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.

Sound.

Mark 12:17,28,32,34 And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him. . . .

1 Timothy 6:3 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,

that he.

Nehemiah 5:9 And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?

1 Timothy 5:14 I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

1 Peter 2:12,15 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation. . . .

1 Peter 3:16 But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

may.

Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name's sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall be confounded.

Luke 13:17 And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.

2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

having.

Philippians 2:14-16 And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations: . . .