15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk
Most Relevant Verses
This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:
He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites ??as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:
so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.
My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.
for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),
I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds,
I will come to you before long, if the Lord wills, and then I will find out from these puffed up creatures not what their talk but what their power amounts to.
Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal;
if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?
Well, it is the same with yourselves. Unless your tongue utters language that is readily understood, how can people make out what you say? You will be pouring words into the empty air!
Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.
For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;
He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still.
