Bible Verses about 'Words'
- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- Words spoken by the wise bring them favor,
but the lips of fools consume them. - Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body. - Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor 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 for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but the prudent are restrained in speech. - I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth. - 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 to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. - Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you. - My child, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart. - 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.
- Take words with you
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept that which is good,
and we will offer
the fruit of our lips.” - Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on 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 fulfilled, says the Lord God.
- Hear, my child, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many. - 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 how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
- Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
- The sum of your word is truth;
and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. - Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.
- 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 ruler. - May my teaching drop like the rain,
my speech condense like the dew;
like gentle rain on grass,
like showers on new growth. - Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” 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 bring strife,
and a fool's mouth invites a flogging. - Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
- The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
the mind of the wicked is of little worth. - Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. - With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. - If you refrain from trampling the sabbath,
from pursuing your own interests on my holy day;
if you call the sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;
then you shall take delight in the Lord,
and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth;
I will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. - Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
- Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, 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 thing 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.
- Those who are wise understand these things;
those who are discerning 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 the message of reconciliation to us.
- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Thus says the Lord:
Stand at the crossroads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way lies; 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 just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
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