59 Bible Verses about speaking

So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.

For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.

Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.

For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;

A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he.

They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.

But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.

Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!

And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.

No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.