39 Bible Verses about Speech

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

Well, it is the same with yourselves. Unless your tongue utters language that is readily understood, how can people make out what you say? You will be pouring words into the empty air!

in him you have received a wealth of all blessing, full power to speak of your faith and full insight into its meaning,

Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open ??13 not like Moses, who used to hang a veil over his face to keep the children of Israel from gazing at the last rays of a fading glory.

but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!

true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence,

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

Let what you say be simply 'yes' or 'no'; whatever exceeds that springs from evil.

what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

Now then, you are to the front in everything, in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all zeal, and in love for us ??do come to the front in this gracious enterprise as well.

For God's Reign does not show itself in talk but in power.

I have told you this in figures, but the time is coming when I shall speak to you in figures no longer; I shall let you know plainly about the Father.

I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.

So Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians; he was a strong man in speech and action.

I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.

His disciples said, "Now, you are talking plainly at last, not speaking in figures.

After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!"