5 Bible Verses about Babblers

Most Relevant Verses

Proverbs 23:29-35


Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Whose eyes are red and dim?

Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.

Do not look at wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the glass,
When it goes down smoothly.
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At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.

Your [drunken] eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things].

And you will be [as unsteady] as one who lies down in the middle of the sea,
And [as vulnerable to disaster] as one who lies down on the top of a ship’s mast, saying,

“They struck me, but I was not hurt!
They beat me, but I did not feel it!
When will I wake up?
I will seek more wine.”

Acts 17:18

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to engage in conversation with him. And some said, “What could this idle babbler [with his eclectic, scrap-heap learning] have in mind to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities”—because he was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard and keep safe the deposit [of godly truth] entrusted to you, turn away from worldly and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], and the contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge”—

2 Timothy 2:16

But avoid all irreverent babble and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], for it will lead to further ungodliness,

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the serpent bites before being charmed, then there is no profit for the charmer.

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