40 Bible Verses about speaking
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So likewise unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye will speak to the air.
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God; for no one understandeth him, though by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries:
Let all things be done to edification. If any one speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or three at most, and that by course, and let one interpret.
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man minister, let him minister as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified thro' Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the might for ever and ever. Amen.
Then the Lord said to Paul by a vision, in the night, Fear not, but speak and hold not thy peace:
Yet in the congregation I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this;
according to what is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken, we also believe, and therefore speak:
But if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
But when they deliver you, take no thought, how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that very hour what ye shall speak.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
wherein is excess; but be ye filled with the Spirit, Speaking to each other in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts unto the Lord;
Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also saith.
I have spoken these things to you in parables: but the time is coming, when I will no longer speak to you in parables, but will shew you plainly of the Father.
And behold, thou shalt be deaf, and not able to speak, till the day that these things are done, because thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
From Thematic Bible
Symbols of the Holy Spirit » A voice » Speaking
Evil » Speaking » Warnings against
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice.
For he that loveth life and desireth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak no guile:
Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies,
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: it is the tongue among the members which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Speaking » Folly in
But I say to you, That every idle word which men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, or by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Speaking
Topics on Speaking
Christ Speaking
John 18:20Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I was continually teaching in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort, and in secret have I said nothing.
Christ Speaking To Disciples
Matthew 12:49And stretching forth his hand toward his disciples he said, Behold my mother and my brethren.
Evil Speaking
1 Peter 2:1Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies,
God Speaking Of Old
Hebrews 1:1God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake of old to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son;
Speaking Again
Acts 10:15And the voice came to him again, the second time, What God hath purified, call not thou common.
Speaking As From God
1 Peter 4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man minister, let him minister as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified thro' Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the might for ever and ever. Amen.
Speaking By The Spirit
Luke 12:12take no thought how or what ye shall answer or what ye shall say. For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in that hour, what ye ought to say.
Speaking In Christ's Name
Matthew 7:22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name have done many wonderful works?
Speaking In Tongues
Acts 19:1-7Now while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper parts, came to Ephesus;
Speaking The Word God Gives
Luke 21:15which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay or resist.
Speaking Truth
Ephesians 4:15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:
Speaking, Evil
Romans 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.
Speaking, Wisdom In
James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
The Dumb Speaking
Luke 1:64And immediately his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, praising God.
The Spirit Speaking
Acts 8:29Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot.
While Still Speaking
Acts 10:44While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all that were hearing the word.
