61 Bible Verses about Speech
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My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:
Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.
Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth."
For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:
Even so, likewise, when ye speak with tongues, except ye speak words that have signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? For ye shall but speak in the air.
Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.
that in all things ye are made rich by him, in all learning and in all knowledge:
Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.
There is neither speech nor language, but their voices are heard among them.
For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body.
Take heed, and hear my voice, ponder and mark my words well.
And then will I cleanse the lips of the people, that they may every each one call upon the name of the LORD, and serve him with one shoulder.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in gloriousness of words or of wisdom, showing unto you the testimony of God.
Whoso delighteth to be of a clean heart and of gracious lips, the king shall be his friend.
But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.
in the words of truth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousness of the right hand and on the left hand,
Let no man despise thy youth; but be unto them that believe, an example: in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith and in pureness.
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, where against all your adversaries shall not be able to speak nor resist.
But your communication shall be, 'Yea, Yea; Nay, nay': for whatsoever is more than that cometh of evil.
And my words, and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom: but in showing of the spirit and of power,
Now therefore, as ye are rich in all parts, in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all ferventness, and in love, which ye have to us: even so see that ye be plenteous in this benevolence.
And Moses answered before the LORD, "I am of uncircumcised lips, how shall Pharaoh then give me audience?"
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs. The time will come when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs: but I shall show you plainly from my father.
Though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge. Howbeit, among you we are known to the utmost what we are in all things.
O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in thy wrath remember mercy.
Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city.
And Moses was learned in all manner wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in deeds and in words.
This I say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Unto him I speak mouth to mouth and he seeth the sight and the fashion of the LORD, and not through riddles. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me; incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.
For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should have been made of none effect.
"For the epistles," saith he, "are sore and strong: but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech homely."
I am very bold over you, and rejoice greatly in you. I am filled with comfort and am joyous in all our tribulations.
For where much carefulness is, there are many dreams: and where many words are, there men may hear fools.
His disciples said unto him, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and thou usest no proverb.
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.
And Moses said unto the LORD, "O my Lord. I am not eloquent, no not in times past and namely since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and slow tongued."
And after a while, came unto him they that stood by, and said unto Peter, "Surely thou art even one of them, for thy speech betrayeth thee."
Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.
And thou shalt be brought low, and speak out of the earth, and thy words shall go humbly out of the ground. Thy voice shall come out of the earth, like the voice of a witch, and thy talking shall groan out of the mire.
Then answered one of his servants and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that can play upon instruments, and is an active fellow and a man of war and prudent and well made, and the LORD is with him."
Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him
and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of the one people and the other people.
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Language » Called » Speech
And he denied it again. And anon after, they that stood by, said again to Peter, "Surely thou art one of them, for thou art of Galilee, and thy speech agreeth thereto."
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lift up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, "Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men."
Rab-shakeh (rabshakeh) » Sent by » Sennacherib » Speech » Surrender of » Jeruslaem
O that the LORD thy God would hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to rail on the living God, and to rebuke him with words which the LORD thy God hath heard. Wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left."
And Rabshakeh went back again and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah: for he had heard how that he was departed from Lachish.
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh, from Lachish, to king Hezekiah with a great Host to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and went and stood by the conduit of the uppermost pool, which is in the way to the fuller's field, and called to the king. And there came out to them, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah steward of household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. And then Rabshakeh said unto them, "Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, 'Thus sayeth the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this that thou hast? read more.
Thou wilt haply speak a light word, that thou hast counsel and power to make war. On whom then dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Dost thou trust to the staff of this broken reed Egypt, on which if a man lean it will run into his hand and pierce it? For even so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. If ye say unto me, 'We trust in the LORD our God' - Is not that he whose hill altars and other altars too, Hezekiah hath put down, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'Bow yourselves before this altar here in Jerusalem'? And now join thyself to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able to set riders upon them: and, if thou be not, how then art thou able to resist one of the least dukes of my master's servants? Or trustest thou to Egypt for chariots and horsemen? Moreover, thinkest thou that I am come without the bidding of the LORD to this place to destroy it? Nay: the LORD said to me, 'Go up to this land, and destroy it.''" Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebnah and Joah, to Rabshakeh, "Speak, we pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrians' language, for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' tongue, in the ears of the people that are on the walls." And Rabshakeh said unto them, "Hath my master sent me only to thy master and to thee, to speak these words? Or rather to the men that keep on the walls, that they shall eat their own dirt, and drink their own piss with you?" And so Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake saying, "Hear the saying of the great king, the king of Assyria! Thus sayeth the king, 'Let not Hezekiah beguile you, for he is not able to deliver you out of mine hand: neither let Hezekiah make you trust to the LORD, saying: the LORD will surely rid us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.' Hearken not unto Hezekiah, for thus sayeth the king of Assyria, 'Deal kindly with me, and come out to me. And then eat every man of his own vine, and of his own fig tree, and drink every man of the water of his own well, till I come and fetch you to as good a land as yours is: a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees, of oil and of honey. And ye shall live and not die. And hearken not unto Hezekiah for he will beguile you, saying: the LORD shall deliver us.' For have the Gods of the nations delivered any God his land, out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the Gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the Gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? Did they deliver Samaria out of mine hands? What God of any land hath delivered his land out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?" But the people held their peace and answered him not a word: for the king had commanded, saying, "Answer him not."
Speech » Evil, general references to
"Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."
The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.
and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Speech » Admonitions concerning
See thou have the example of the wholesome words which thou heardest of me, in faith and love which is in Jesus Christ.
He is wise and discreet that tempereth his words; and he is a man of understanding, that maketh much of his spirit.
But your communication shall be, 'Yea, Yea; Nay, nay': for whatsoever is more than that cometh of evil.
Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.
Speech » Plainness of
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the vengeance to come?
Uprightness » Should be in » Speech
He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.
Topics on Speech
Beware Of Your Speech
James 3:5even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth,
Curbing Speech
Job 13:13"Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.
Figures Of Speech
Galatians 4:24Which things betoken mystery. For these women are two testaments, the one from the mount Sinai, which gendreth unto bondage, which is Hagar.
Let Your Speech Be Good
Ephesians 4:29Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.
Powers Of Speech
Proverbs 18:21Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.
Speech Impediments
Exodus 4:10And Moses said unto the LORD, "O my Lord. I am not eloquent, no not in times past and namely since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and slow tongued."
Speech, Divine
Hebrews 1:1-2God, in time past, diversely and many ways, spake unto the fathers by prophets:
Speech, Negative Aspects Of
Matthew 12:33-35Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.
Speech, Positive Aspects Of
Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD; my strength and my redeemer.
Speech, Power And Significance Of
Proverbs 18:21Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.
Without Speech
Psalm 19:3There is neither speech nor language, but their voices are heard among them.