61 Bible Verses about Speech
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and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.
His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge--
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
"For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.
And I, when I came to you, brothers,did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
But as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you--see that you excel in this act of grace also.
But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?"
"I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words.
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."
I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
His disciples said, "Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!
Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue."
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you."
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him."
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.
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But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, "Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean."
And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
Rab-shakeh (rabshakeh) » Sent by » Sennacherib » Speech » Surrender of » Jeruslaem
It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that the king had left Lachish.
And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field. And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. And the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? read more.
Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem"? Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'" Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall." But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?" Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand. Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.' Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."
Speech » Evil, general references to
"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Speech » Admonitions concerning
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
Speech » Plainness of
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Uprightness » Should be in » Speech
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
Topics on Speech
Beware Of Your Speech
James 3:5So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
Figures Of Speech
Galatians 4:24Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
Let Your Speech Be Good
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Powers Of Speech
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Speech Impediments
Exodus 4:10But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue."
Speech, Divine
Hebrews 1:1-2Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
Speech, Negative Aspects Of
Matthew 12:33-35"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.
Speech, Positive Aspects Of
Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
Speech, Power And Significance Of
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
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