88 Bible Verses about Lips

She prayed silently. Her lips were moving, but she made no sound. So Eli thought that she was drunk.

Your own mouth condemns you, not mine! Your own lips testify against you.

My words come from an upright heart! My lips sincerely speak what I know.

I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.

Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth.

A vessel full of vinegar was setting there. They put a sponge full of vinegar upon a hyssop branch and brought it to his mouth.

How I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you

I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

I have avoided cruelty because of your word regardless of what others have done.

I will not dishonor my promise or alter my own agreement.

The name of Jehovah is going to come from far away. His anger is burning. His burden is heavy. His lips are filled with fury. His tongue is like a devouring flame.

([Psalm of David]) I will thank Jehovah at all times. My mouth will always praise him.

O Jehovah, open my lips (help me speak), and my mouth will speak your praise.

My lips will praise you because your love (mercy) (loving kindness) (steadfast love) is better than life.

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

I create the fruit (praise) of the lips: Peace, peace to the near and the far off, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

Have you any idea what these people are saying? Jesus answered: Yes. It is written, 'From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete.'

From the mouths of little children and infants, you have built a fortress against your opponents to silence the enemy and the avenger.

Let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God through him [Jesus], that is, the fruit of lips that make confession (give thanks and offer praise) to his name.

You gave him his heart's desire. You did not refuse the prayer from his lips.

Hear my argument. Listen to the plea of my lips.

([Psalm of David]) Hear my plea for justice, O Jehovah. Pay attention to my cry. Open your ears to my prayer, spoken without deceit.

After much discussion Peter got up and said: Men and brothers you know that God made a choice among us, that I would preach the good news to the nations that they may hear and believe.

This festival will be like a mark on your hand. It will be a reminder on your forehead that the teachings of Jehovah are always to be a part of your conversation! Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring you out of Egypt.

All witnessed this and wondered at the kind words that he spoke. They said: Is this not Joseph's son?

the vows made by my lips and spoken by my own mouth when I was in trouble.

If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,

Be careful to perform the promise that comes from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to Jehovah your God. Keep your promise.

I announced the good news of righteousness in the great congregation. I will not close my lips. You know that, O Jehovah.

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

They responded: What further need do we have for witnesses? We have heard this from his mouth.

I could strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve your pain.

The lips of the righteous feed many. Fools die for lack of understanding.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

My lips will shout for joy! You have redeemed me and I sing praises to you!

But Moses replied: I am not a powerful speaker. If the sons of Israel will not listen to me, why should the king of Egypt?

I heard and my body trembled! My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness entered into my bones and I tremble. I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the people who invade us.

They made him bitter so that he spoke recklessly.

Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern destructive malice?

This is because of the sins from their mouths and the words on their lips. Let them be trapped by their own arrogance because they speak curses and lies.

Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with their own threats.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth. Get rid of devious speech.

He shuts his eyes to devise perversity. He moves his lips to bring evil.

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth is smoother than oil.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive that he does not have lips of knowledge.

The evildoer pays attention to false lips. A liar listens attentively to a wicked tongue.

A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows. A fool's mouth is his ruin. His lips are the snares of his life.

Do not witness against your neighbor without cause. Do not deceive with you lips.

Let their lying lips be speechless, since they speak against righteous people with arrogance and contempt.

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

O Jehovah, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

Truly a fool hides hatred with lying lips, and speaks slander.

Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

People speak lies to one another. They speak with flattering lips and with double-heart. (Double Heart: They say one thing but mean another.) Jehovah will destroy every flattering lip and every bragging tongue

But God says to the wicked: How dare you quote my decrees and mouth my covenant!

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross. He who hates disguises with his lips, and stores deceit within him.

You plant them, and they take root. They grow and bear fruit. You are near their lips, but far from their mind.

These people honor me with their lips, but their heart (innermost thoughts) is far from me.

He told them: Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites. It is written: 'This people honor me with their lips but their heart is far from me.

These people praise me with their words, said Jehovah, but they never draw near to me in their hearts (deepest thoughts). Their reverence for me comes from the repetitious tradition of men.

The lip of truth will be established forever. A lying tongue is only for a moment.

Listen for I speak of excellent things. The truth comes from my lips. My mouth will speak truth! Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They love the man who speaks what is right.

Yes, my inmost being rejoices when you speak right things.

I have not hurried away from being your shepherd. I have not longed for the day of destruction. You know what I used to say.

The law of truth was in his mouth. Unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness. He turned many away from iniquity. The priests should teach the true knowledge of God. They are the messengers of Jehovah of Hosts. Therefore the people should learn (my will) the law from them.

The lips of the righteous speak what is acceptable. The mouth of the wicked speaks perversion.

Wisdom is found on the lips of the understanding (discerning). A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, the heart of the foolish does not.

There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips that speak knowledge are more precious than jewels.

Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart and mind to my knowledge. It is pleasant that you keep them within you. They will be firmly established on you lips.

A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The deeds of a man's hands will return to him.

A man eats well by the fruit of his mouth. Transgressors eat violence.

A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth. He will be filled with the produce from his lips.

The rod of pride is in the mouth of the foolish. The lips of the wise will preserve them.

A fool's mouth is his ruin. His lips are the snares of his life.

O Jehovah, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.

Listen to everything Jehovah has said to you. Do not pray to other gods! Do not even mention their names.

He who keeps his mouth (watches what he says) keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips (speaks thoughtlessly) will have destruction.

Whoever would love life and see good days should keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Which of you wants a full life? Who would like to live long enough to enjoy good things?

He touched my mouth with it and said: See! This has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin forgiven (pardoned) (atoned for).

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no more be mentioned by their name.