Bible Verses about 'Words'
- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor,
but the lips of a fool consume him. - Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body. - Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. - The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple. - If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. - I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food. - The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body. - Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. - If you turn at my reproof,
behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;
I will make my words known to you. - My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart. - 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.
- Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
the vows of our lips.” - Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.
- Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many. - So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
- 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.
- The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. - And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
- A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. - The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse. - Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a prince. - May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb. - 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.
- Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
- A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. - A fool's lips walk into a fight,
and his mouth invites a beating. - Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
- The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
the heart of the wicked is of little worth. - Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. - With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. - If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
then you shall take delight in the Lord,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. - Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
- Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
- Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and the upright walk in them,
but transgressors stumble in them. - That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
- Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” - Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
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