25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk
Most Relevant Verses
There is profit in all hard work,
but endless talk leads only to poverty.
The Lord said:
Because these people approach Me with their mouths
to honor Me with lip-service—
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—
He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
These people honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.
Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.
Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.
For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we were among you for your benefit,
Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
A slave cannot be disciplined by words;
though he understands, he doesn’t respond.
Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
They speak mere words,
taking false oaths while making covenants.
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk but the power of those who are inflated with pride.
If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,
I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?
In the same way, unless you use your tongue for intelligible speech, how will what is spoken be known? For you will be speaking into the air.
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
For there are also many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from Judaism.
The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
