88 Bible Verses about Lips

Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips [were] moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her [to be] drunk.

Your mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you.

My words [declare] my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak {what my lips know}.

I had not eaten [any] choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and {I did not use any ointment} {until the end of three whole weeks}.

Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

A jar full of sour wine was standing there, so [they] put a sponge full of the sour wine on a [branch of] hyssop [and] brought [it] to his mouth.

But, {O that} God might speak, and [that] he would open his lips to you,

[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.

As for [the] works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept [from] the ways of [the] violent.

I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.

Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning [with] his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full [of] indignation, and his tongue [is] like a devouring fire.

I will bless Yahweh at all times; his praise [shall be] in my mouth continually.

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise.

Because your loyal love [is] better than life, my lips will praise you.

Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes.

creating fruit of lips. Peace, peace to the far and near," says Yahweh, "and I will heal him.

And they said to him, "Do you hear what these [children] are saying?" So Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise'?"

From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence [the] enemy and [the] avenger.

Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise {continually} to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

You have given him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Please hear my argument, and listen attentively [to the] pleadings of my lips.

O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer [I make] without deceitful lips.

And [after] there was much debate, Peter stood up [and] said to them, "Men [and] brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you through my mouth [that] the Gentiles should hear the message of the gospel and believe.

And it will be as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes so that the law of Yahweh will be in your mouth, that with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out from Egypt.

And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, "Is this man not the son of Joseph?"

that my lips uttered, and my mouth spoke in my distress.

"If {she has a husband} while bound by her vows or a rash promise of her lips,

The utterance of your lips {you must perform diligently} [just] as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever [it was] that you promised with your mouth.

I have brought good tidings [of] righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.

With my lips I have told [of] all the ordinances of your mouth.

And they said, "Why do we have need [of] further testimony? For [we] ourselves have heard [it] from his mouth!"

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools {die for lack of sense}.

Yet he will fill your mouth [with] laughter and your lips [with] a shout of joy.

My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed.

And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Look, the {Israelites} do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I [am] {a poor speaker}?"

I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which [is] beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us.

because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?

[By] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for [the] curses and lies they proclaim.

[With respect to the] head of [those who] surround me, may the harm of their lips cover them.

Remove from yourself {deceitful speech}, and abolish {devious talk} from yourself.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.

Leave {the presence of a foolish man}, [for] you will not [come to] know {words of knowledge}.

He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, [and] the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.

The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.

Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips.

Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

He who conceals hatred [has] lips of deceit, and he who utters slander--he is a fool.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.

They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak. May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, [the] tongue speaking great boasts--

But to the wicked God says, "What [right] have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth},

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit.

Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You [are] near in their mouths, but far from their {inmost beings}.

'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me,

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me.

And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment.

Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips. My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.

The delight of kings [are] the lips of righteousness, and he who speaks what is upright he will love.

And my {insides} will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.

But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd {who follows you}, and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face.

[The] instruction of truth was in his mouth, and wickedness was not found on his lips. In peace and in uprightness he walked with me, and he brought back many from sin. For the lips of [the] priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek instruction from his mouth, for he [is] the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.

The lips of the righteous know [the] acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, the perverse.

On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod [is] for the back of one who lacks {sense}.

The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so.

There is gold and many costly stones, but precious jewels are lips of knowledge.

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise; you shall apply your heart to my teaching. For [it is] pleasant if you guard them {within you}; together they will be ready upon your lips.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of {a man's labor} will return to him.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing.

From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy.

In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them.

The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.

Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

" 'And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not {profess} the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth.

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

Who [is] the man who desires life, who loves [many] days in order to see good?

And he touched my mouth, and he said, "Look! This has touched your lips and has removed your guilt, and your sin is annulled."

I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name.