39 Bible Verses about Speech

that he who is on the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

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

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.

For such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple.

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.

That in every thing ye are inriched through him,

Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good, to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.

For in many things we offend all. If any one offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

Having therefore this hope, we use great plainness of speech.

But now put ye also all these things off, anger, wrath, ill-nature, evil speaking, filthy discourse out of your mouth.

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right-hand and the left:

Let no one despise thy youth; but be a pattern to them that believe, in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Why do ye not understand my discourse? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay or resist.

But let your conversation be yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these, cometh of the evil one.

And my speech and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

Therefore as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

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

I have spoken these things to you in parables: but the time is coming, when I will no longer speak to you in parables, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

For if I am unskilful in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly manifest to you in all things.

And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

And this I say, that no man may beguile you with inticing words.

I know not that I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; but not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

Great is my freedom of speech toward you; great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I exceedingly abound with joy, over all our affliction.

His disciples say to him, Lo now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no parable.

And after a while they that stood by, came and said to Peter, Surely thou art also one of them; for thy speech discovereth thee.