25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

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Matthew 15:8

This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:6

He answered and said unto them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Matthew 23:3

therefore, whatever they bid you to observe, observe it and do it, but do not act according to their works, for they say and do not do it.

Job 16:5

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.

Proverbs 29:19

A slave will not be corrected by words, for though he understands he will not obey.

Job 16:6

Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment shall spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Job 18:2

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul's stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Job 35:16

therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.

Romans 15:18

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,

1 Corinthians 4:19

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the virtue.

James 2:16

and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what shall it profit them?

1 Corinthians 14:9

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a clear and definite word, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

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