25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

and he answering said to them -- 'Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

for not in word is the reign of God, but in power?

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and any one of you may say to them, 'Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?

so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;