15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me;

His answer was: "It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words--'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me;

Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

Because the Good News that we brought came home to you, not merely as so many words, but with a power and a fulness of conviction due to the Holy Spirit. For you know the life that we lived among you for your good.

For I will not dare to speak of anything but what Christ has done through me to win the obedience of the Gentiles--

But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I shall find out, not what words these men use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;

For the Kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.

Though I speak in the 'tongues' of men, or even of angels, yet have not Love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal!

And one of you were to say to them--"Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves," and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them?

And so with you; unless, in using the gift of 'tongues,' you utter intelligible words, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

There are, indeed, many unruly persons--great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,

He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.

He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.