25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

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

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?

So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.