73 Bible Verses about Mouths

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;
Has He said, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hand, saying,

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying,

who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day.

who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised him; indeed You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.

The law of Your mouth is better to me
Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.

“I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

With my lips I have told of
All the ordinances of Your mouth.
I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.

I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.”

So Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come now to you! Am I able to speak anything at all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.”

Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”

He has made My mouth like a sharp sword,
In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;
And He has also made Me a select arrow,
He has hidden Me in His quiver.

But the Lord said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,
And all that I command you, you shall speak.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll. He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.read more.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
And the peoples devise futile things?

With the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied;
He will be satisfied with the product of his lips.

So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink.” Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

So they ate and were well filled,
And their desire He gave to them.
Before they had satisfied their desire,
While their food was in their mouths,

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish,
But will not even bring it back to his mouth.

This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

But I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”

All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.

“Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.

Thus says the Lord,
“Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear,
So will the sons of Israel dwelling in Samaria be snatched away—
With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!

They open wide their mouth at me,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Save me from the lion’s mouth;
From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.

My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”

And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” Then Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now.” The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood. But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon poured out of his mouth.

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
But the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.

“For my mouth will utter truth;
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

My mouth is filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all day long.

O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.

My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.

so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your salvation all day long;
For I do not know the sum of them.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

My mouth will speak wisdom,
And the meditation of my heart will be understanding.

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
And his tongue speaks justice.

The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom,
But the perverted tongue will be cut out.

True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity. For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
“I will open My mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

“Boast no more so very proudly,
Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth;
For the Lord is a God of knowledge,
And with Him actions are weighed.

“Though evil is sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

“You let your mouth loose in evil
And your tongue frames deceit.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;