15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

This people draweth nigh to me with their mouths, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

Then he answering said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

all things therefore which they prescribe for you to observe, observe and practise; but do not according to their works, for they say, yet do not practise.

My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in great fulness of assurance; as ye know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

For I will not dare to say any thing of those things which Christ hath not wrought by my ministry, to engage the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

But I will come shortly unto you, if the Lord please, and will know, not the prating of them that are puffed up, but the power.

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

THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, and tinkling cymbal.

and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

So also ye, unless with the tongue you speak an intelligible discourse, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will speak to the air.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;

He who saith that he abideth in him, ought as he walked, even so himself to walk.

He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.