25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

By all labour, there will be abundance, but, the talk of the lips, tendeth only to want.

Wherefore My Lord hath said, - Because this people, hath drawn near with their mouth, And with their lips, have honoured me, But their heart, have they moved far from me, And so their reverence of me hath become A commandment of men in which they have been schooled,

This people, with the lips, do, honour, me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me;

But, he, said unto them - Well, prophesied Isaiah concerning you, ye hypocrites, as it is written - This people, with the lips do honour me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me, -

All things, therefore, whatsoever they tell you, do and observe, - but, according to their works, do ye not, for they, say, and do not, perform.

Dear children! Let us not be loving in word, nor yet with the tongue, but in deed and truth.

How that, our glad-message, came not unto you, in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, - even as ye know what manner of men we became unto you, for your sake;

I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

By words, a servant will not be corrected, though he perceiveth, yet is there no answer.

Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain, - And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?

That they may come unto thee as people do come And may sit before thee as my people, And they will hear thy words, But the, words themselves, they not do, - though fond with their mouths, they seem to be, After their unjust gain, their heart is going.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely, in solemnizing a covenant, - therefore shall judgment, spring up like a poisonous plant, on the ridges of the field.

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.

For I wilt not dare to speak anything save of the things which Christ hath wrought out for himself through me for the obedience of nations, - -by word and deed,

Howbeit, I will come quickly unto you, - if, the Lord, please, - and will get to know - not the speech of them who are puffed up, but, the power;

For, not in speech, is the kingdom of God, but, in power.

Although with the tongues of men, I be speaking, and of messengers, and have not, love, I have become resounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;

And one from among you should say unto them - Withdraw in peace, be getting warmed and fed, but should not give them the things needful for the body, What the profit?

So, also, ye, through means of the tongue, except ye give intelligible discourse, how shall it be known what is being spoken? for ye will be speaking, to the air.

Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:

For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision, -

He that saith, that, in him, he abideth, ought, just as He walked, himself also, to be walking.

He that saith he is, in the light, and hateth, his brother, is, in the darkness, until even now!