15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk
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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act.
Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.
for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.
For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,
But I am coming very soon to see you, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not what these conceited people have to say, but what they can actually do.
I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.
and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?
So if you in your ecstatic speaking utter words no one can understand, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the empty air!
Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.
For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision.
Whoever says, "I am in the light," and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness.
