15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk
Most Relevant Verses
This is a people that honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me;
"therefore do and observe whatever they bid you; but do not do as they do, for they preach, but do not practise.
My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.
for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.
For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,
But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.
Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them?
In the same way with you, if you utter unintelligible words with your tongue, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!
Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;
For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped;
He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
