Bible Verses about 'Speaking'
- Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit. - Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
- Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruits. - The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
- Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. - Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
- A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. - For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
- And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
- I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak.
- Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. - When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. - He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
- Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute. - To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,
and a word in season, how good it is! - A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. - Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
- The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor,
but the lips of a fool consume him. - Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets,
but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered. - From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
- My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day. - If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
- Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
- Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
- Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed. - Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
- For “Whoever desires to love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.” - And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body. - Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples! - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. - Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. - A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only in expressing his opinion. - Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue. - With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. - A fool's lips walk into a fight,
and his mouth invites a beating. - Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down,
but a good word makes him glad. - In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk tends only to poverty. - If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
- And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
- Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
- For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long. - The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse. - Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
- It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling.
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