15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk
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"'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;
But He answered them, "Isaiah beautifully prophesied about you hypocrites; as the Scripture says: "'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;
So everything they tell you, do and practice, but stop doing what they do, for they preach but do not practice.
Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.
for our preaching of the good news came to you not entirely in words but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with absolute certainty (for you know the kind of men we were among you for your own sakes).
For I would venture to mention only what Christ has accomplished through me in bringing the heathen peoples to obedience, by word and by work,
But I am coming, and coming soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not only what those conceited fellows say but what they can do,
If I could speak the languages of men, of angels too, and have no love, I am only a rattling pan or a clashing cymbal.
and one of you says to him, "Blessings on you, keep warm, eat until you have aplenty," without giving him the things that are needed for the body, what good does it do?
So it is with you; unless in your ecstatic speaking you speak a message that is clearly intelligible, how can the message spoken by you be understood? You might just as well be talking to the air!
Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient.
For there are many insubordinate people, mere talkers with nothing to say, but deceivers of their own minds, especially those of the circumcision party,
Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.
Whoever claims to be in the light, and yet continues to hate his brother is still in darkness.
