Bible Verses about 'Talk'

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• Diligent labor always yields profit,
  but idle conversation only leads to poverty.
  Proverbs 14:23reliabilityspeakingencouragement
• Turn away from the mouth that deceives
  and keep your distance from lips that mislead.
  Proverbs 4:24speakingtruthlying
• You shall keep these things that I command you today in your heart. Teach them to your children. You shall talk of them when you are sitting in your home, and when you are walking along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
  Deuteronomy 6:6-7lawfamilychildren
• Exhort slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction in every respect. They are not to talk back to them, nor are they to steal from them. Rather, they should show themselves to be completely trustworthy so that in every way they may add luster to the doctrine of God our Savior.
  Titus 2:9-10slaverywork
• Indeed, fornication and impurity of any kind, as well as greed, should not even be mentioned among you. Such talk is not fitting for saints.
  Ephesians 5:3singreedholiness
• Let no foul word ever pass your lips. Say only what is useful for edification, so that your words may benefit your listeners.
  Ephesians 4:29speakinggossipgoodness
• Where many words are spoken, sin is not absent,
  but whoever restrains his tongue is prudent.
  Proverbs 10:19sinspeaking
• Dear children,
  let us love not in word or speech
  but in deed and truth.
  1 John 3:18honestytruthspeaking
• The tongue has the power over life and death;
  those who cherish it will enjoy its fruits.
  Proverbs 18:21speakingblessingself-control
• He who guards his mouth makes his life secure,
  but one who talks excessively ensures his own downfall.
  Proverbs 13:3speakingwisdomlife
• Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather seek to expose them.
  For it is shameful even to speak of what deeds people do in secret.
  Ephesians 5:11-12sinspeakingidols
• If you refrain from traveling on the Sabbath
  and from engaging in your own interests on my holy day,
  if you call the Sabbath a day of joy
  and regard the Lord’s holy day as honorable,
  if you honor it by not going your own way,
  serving your own interests,
  or attending to your own affairs;
  then you will find true happiness in the Lord,
  and I will enable you to ride
  upon the heights of the earth.
  I will nourish you with the heritage of your father Jacob,
  for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  Isaiah 58:13-14sabbath
• But when the disciples saw him walking on the water they thought it was a ghost and they cried out, for they all had seen him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them, saying, “Have courage! It is I! Do not be afraid!”
  Mark 6:49-50miraclesJesusfear
• Then, after he had spoken to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven, and there he took his place at the right hand of God.
  Mark 16:19Jesusascensionheaven