25 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk} of lips [leads] only to poverty.

And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me,

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me.

Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as {they do}, for they tell [others to do something] and do not do [it themselves].

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

because our gospel did not come to you with word only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, just as you know what sort of [people] we became among you for your sake.

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

By words, a servant is not disciplined, for he will understand, but there is no giving heed.

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.

They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.

"{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

{therefore} Job opens his mouth in empty talk-- without knowledge he multiplies words."

For I will not dare to speak about anything except [that] which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

But I am coming to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk of the ones who have become arrogant, but the power.

For the kingdom of God [is] not with talk, but with power.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a ringing brass gong or a clashing cymbal.

and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?

And so you through the tongue, unless you produce a clear message, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

For there are many rebellious [people], idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

The one who says [that he] resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.

The one who says [he] is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now.