61 Bible Verses about Speech
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My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and truth.
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor.
For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.
So also ye, except by the tongue ye give an evident word, how shall the speaking be known? for ye shall be speaking into the air.
And all the earth shall be one lip, and the same words.
They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.
That in every thing we were enriched in him, in all the word, and all knowledge;
Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.
No saying and no words without their voice being heard.
For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.
Give ear and hear my voice; tend and hear my saying.
For then I will turn to the peoples a purified lip, for all to call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one shoulder.
And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.
And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.
In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,
Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all they opposed to you shall not be able to contradict nor withstand.
Day to day will gush out the saying, and night to night will breathe out knowledge.
And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power
But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.
And Moses will say before Jehovah, Behold, I of uncircumcised lips; and how shall Pharaoh hear to me?
These have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the hour comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but with freedom of speech will I announce to you of the Father.
Turn away from thee perverseness of mouth, and frowardness of lips remove far oft from thee.
And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.
O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I was afraid: O Jehovah, preserve alive thy work in the midst of years, in the midst of years make known; in anger thou wilt remember mercy.
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in words and in works.
And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments.
Mouth to mouth I will speak to him, and in appearance and not in enigmas; and the portion of Jehovah shall he behold: and wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.
(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)
Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.
For the dream came in the multitude of labor; and the voice of the foolish one in the multitude of words.
His disciples say to him, See, now thou speakest with freedom of speech, and sayest no proverb.
Thou shalt not give thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; and thou shalt not say to the face of the messenger that it is an error: wherefore shall God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
And Moses will say to Jehovah, With leave my Lord, not a man of words, also from yesterday, also from the third day, also from the time of thy speaking to thy servant; for I being heavy of mouth, and heavy of tongue.
And a little after, those standing, having come near, said to Peter, Truly thou also art of them; for also thy speech makes thee manifest.
Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
And thou being brought down, thou shalt speak from the earth, and thy word shall be depressed out of the dust, and thy voice as a necromancer from the earth, and thy saying Shall peep from the dust
And one of his boys will answer and say, I saw a son to Jesse of the House of Bread, knowing to play, mighty of strength, and a man of war, and discerning the word, and a man of figure, and Jehovah with him.
With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.
And their sons half speaking the Ashdod dialect, and they not knowing to speak the Judean dialect, and according to the tongue of people and people.
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And after a little, again they standing by said to Peter, Truly thou art of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech is like.
And the crowds having seen what Paul did, lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, Gods likened to men came down to us.
Rab-shakeh (rabshakeh) » Sent by » Sennacherib » Speech » Surrender of » Jeruslaem
Perhaps Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh which the king of Assur his lord sent him to reproach the living God; and he will decide upon the words which Jehovah thy God beard: and lift thou up a prayer for the remnant being found.
And Rabshakeh will turn back and find the king of Assur warring against Libnah: for he heard that he removed from Lachish.
And the king of Assur will send Tartan, Rab-Saris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah, with weighty strength to Jeruslaem; and they will go up and come to Jerusalem: and they will go up and come and stand by the aqueduct of the highest pool in the highway of the field of the fuller. And they will call for the king, and there will go forth to them Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph reminding. And Rabshakeh will say to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Assur, What this confidence in which thou trustedst? read more.
Thou saidst (but a word of the lips) Counsel and strength for war Now upon whom didst thou trust that thou rebelledst against me? Now behold, thou trustedst to thyself, upon the stay of this broken reed, upon Egypt, which a man shall lean upon it and it will go into his hand and bore it; thus Pharaoh king of Egypt to all trusting upon him. And if ye shall say to me, We trusted to Jehovah our God: is it not he of whom Hezekiah turned away his heights and his altars, and he will say to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? And now become surety to my lord the king of Assur, and I will give to thee two thousand horses if thou shalt be able to give to thyself riders upon them. And how wilt thou turn back the face of one prefect of my lord's servants of the least, and wilt thou trust to thyself upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Now came I up without Jehovah upon this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, will say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak now to thy servants in Syriac; for we hear: and thou shalt not speak with us in Judaic in the ears of the people who are upon the wall And Rabshakeh will say to them, To thy lord and to thee did my lord send me to speak these words? is it not to the men sitting upon the wall to eat their dung and to drink their piss with you? And Rabshakeh will stand and call with a great voice in Judaic, and speak and say, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assur: Thus said the king, Hezekiah shall not be lifted up to you: for he shall not be able to deliver you from my hand: And Hezekiah shall cause you to trust to Jehovah, saying, Delivering, Jehovah will deliver us, and this same city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assur. Ye shall not hear to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assur, Make me a gift, and come forth to me, and eat ye a man his vine and a man his fig tree, and drink ye a man water of his well, Till my coming and I took you to a land as your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-oil and honey; and live ye, and ye shall not die: and ye shall not hear to Hezekiah, for he will seduce you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Delivering, did the gods of the nations deliver each his hand out of the hand of the king of Assur? Where the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? for did they deliver Shomemn out of my hand? Who of all the gods of the lands who delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah shall deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? And the people were silent and answered him not a word: for it was the command of the king, saying, Ye shall not answer.
Speech » Evil, general references to
Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:
His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.
(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.
Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,
Speech » Admonitions concerning
Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus.
He withholding his words will shew knowledge: I man of understanding is a cool spirit
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
Speech » Plainness of
Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has indicated to you to flee from the wrath about to come?
Uprightness » Should be in » Speech
He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;
Topics on Speech
Beware Of Your Speech
James 3:5So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames
Figures Of Speech
Galatians 4:24Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar.
Let Your Speech Be Good
Ephesians 4:29Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.
Powers Of Speech
Proverbs 18:21Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit
Speech Impediments
Exodus 4:10And Moses will say to Jehovah, With leave my Lord, not a man of words, also from yesterday, also from the third day, also from the time of thy speaking to thy servant; for I being heavy of mouth, and heavy of tongue.
Speech, Divine
Hebrews 1:1-2God, formerly multifariously and abundantly having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
Speech, Negative Aspects Of
Matthew 12:33-35Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Speech, Positive Aspects Of
Psalm 19:14The saying of my mouth and the meditation of my heart shall be for acceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.
Speech, Power And Significance Of
Proverbs 18:21Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit
