25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

And LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, {but in vain they worship me (LXX/NT)}, {teaching the commandments and doctrines of men

This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

And having answered, he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

All things therefore, however many they may tell you to observe, observe and do, but do not ye according to their works, for they say, and do not.

My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].

A servant will not be corrected by words, for though he understands, he will not give heed.

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

and some man of you would say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and fed, but ye would not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the benefit?

So also ye, unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue, how will that which is spoken be known? For ye will be talking into the air.

Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision,

He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.

He who claims to be in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.