15 Bible Verses about Mere Talk

'This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

And He said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me.

All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say and do not.

Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,

but I will come to you shortly if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;

for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit?

So also ye, unless through the tongue ye give intelligible speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air!

Let no one deceive you with empty words; for, because of these things, comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

For there are many unruly men, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

He who says that he is abiding in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

He who says that he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.