39 Bible Verses about Speech

and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.

For men of that stamp are not bondservants of Christ our Lord, but are slaves to their own appetites; and by their plausible words and their flattery they utterly deceive the minds of the simple.

And so with you; if with the living voice you fail to utter intelligible words, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the winds.

that you have been so richly blessed in Him, with readiness of speech and fulness of knowledge.

Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your words be good for benefiting others according to the need of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing to the hearers.

For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.

And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to.

Therefore, cherishing a hope like this, we speak without reserve, and we do not imitate Moses,

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.

by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;

Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to withstand or reply to.

But let your language be, 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no.' Anything in excess of this comes from the Evil one.

And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home;

Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech, knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you, implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving also flourishes in you.

For Apostolic authority is not a thing of words, but of power.

"All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.

And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge I am not deficient. Nay, we have in every way made that fully evident to you.

So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements.

I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.

Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

For they say "His letters are authoritative and forcible, but his personal presence is unimpressive, and as for eloquence, he has none."

I have great confidence in you: very loudly do I boast of you. I am filled with comfort: my heart overflows with joy amid all our affliction.

"Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech!

A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it."