43 Bible Verses about The Power Of Words

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power,

For from thy words thou will be justified, and from thy words thou will be condemned.

Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

For the king's word [has] power, and who may say to him, What are thou doing?

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

For ye are not who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you.

Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

And Moses was reared in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

There is no speech nor language {in which (LXX)} their voice is not heard.

Therefore thus says LORD, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?

because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Then LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,

But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye should speak, for it will be given you in that hour what ye will speak.

It is the spirit that makes alive. The flesh benefits nothing. The sayings that I speak to you are spirit, are life.

Lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the treacherous, violence.

A wise man is strong, yea, a man of knowledge increases might.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

Simon Peter therefore answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? Thou have sayings of eternal life.

He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

And [lest] thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says LORD: My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed

And having answered, Jesus said to them, Are ye not led astray because of this: not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God?

thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth.

A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters. The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.