Bible Verses about 'Speaking'
- Keep your tongue from evil,
and your lips from speaking lies. - But speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ.
- In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
- Death and life are in the power of the tongue;
those who love it will eat its fruit. - The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
- Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- He who guards his mouth guards his soul.
One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. - Not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
- A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but deceit in it crushes the spirit. - For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
- I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
- Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise.
When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. - In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience,
but he who restrains his lips does wisely. - So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
- While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
- Open your mouth for the mute,
in the cause of all who are left desolate. - Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth.
How good is a word at the right time! - A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. - My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
- The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
- One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret. - Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
- My mouth shall be filled with your praise,
with your honor all day long. - Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
- Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
- That if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
but in a multitude of counselors they are established. - In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
- For,
“He who would 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.” - Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. - When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!
Make his doings known among the peoples. - So is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. - If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer. - A fool has no delight in understanding,
but only in revealing his own opinion. - Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue. - With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. - A fool’s lips come into strife,
and his mouth invites beatings. - Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
but a kind word makes it glad. - In all hard work there is profit,
but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. - If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
- Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
- When I kept silence, 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 is perverse. - It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling. - But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
- Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
Put corrupt lips far from you.
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