15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

This people draweth nigh to me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answering said to them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

but do not ye after their works; for they say and do not.

My beloved children, let us love not in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also with power, and with the Holy Ghost, and with much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you, for your sake.

For I will not dare to speak of any thing which Christ hath not done by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders,

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord permit, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.

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

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

So likewise unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye will speak to the air.

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

For there are many unruly vain-talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision,

He that saith, he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

He that saith, he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness until now.