Bible Verses about 'Speaking'
- Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit. - But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
- For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.
- 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 the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
- Let no evil talk come out of your mouths but only what is good for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.
- Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives;
those who open wide their lips come to ruin. - Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.
- A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. - When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
- I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter.
- Even fools who keep silent are considered wise;
when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent. - When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but the prudent are restrained in speech. - You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”
- Speak out for those who cannot speak,
for the rights of all the destitute. - To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone,
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 love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.
- Words spoken by the wise bring them favor,
but the lips of fools consume them. - A gossip goes about telling secrets,
but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence. - From the same mouth comes a blessing and a curse. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.
- My mouth is filled with your praise
and with your glory all day long. - Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
- If your brother or sister sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If you are listened to, you have regained that one.
- Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from 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 go wrong,
but with many advisers they succeed. - Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words.
- For
“Those who desire to love life
and to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.” - Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body. - O give thanks to the Lord; call on his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples. - 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 succeed in the thing for which I sent it. - If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. - When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you who speak but the Holy Spirit.
- A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only in expressing personal opinion. - Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue. - With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. - A fool’s lips bring strife,
and a fool’s mouth invites a flogging. - In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty. - Anxiety weighs down the human heart,
but a good word cheers it up. - If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their 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.
- Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly.
- It is honorable to refrain from strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel. - While I kept silent, my body 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. - Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you. - Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.
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