39 Bible Verses about Speech

let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

Always let your conversation be seasoned with salt, that is, with winsomeness, so that you may know how to make a fitting answer to everyone.

For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.

So it is with you; unless in your ecstatic speaking you speak a message that is clearly intelligible, how can the message spoken by you be understood? You might just as well be talking to the air!

because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

You must stop letting any bad word pass your lips, but only words that are good for building up as the occasion demands, so that they will result in spiritual blessing to the hearers.

For we all make many a slip. If anyone never slips in speech, he is a man of maturity; he can control his whole body too.

Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you God's uncovered secret in rhetorical language or human philosophy,

So, as I have such a hope, I speak with the greatest boldness,

But now you too must once for all put them all aside -- anger, rage, malice, and abusive, filthy talk from your lips.

my message of truth, and the power of God; with the weapons of right-doing in my right hand and my left;

Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.

for I will give you such wisdom of speech as all your opponents combined will not be able to resist and refute.

But your way of speaking must be a simple 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

and my language and the message I preached were not adorned with pleasing words of worldly wisdom, but they were attended with proof and power given by the Spirit,

Yes, just as you are growing rich in everything else, in faith, expression, knowledge, perfect enthusiasm, and the love inspired in you by us, you must see to it that you grow rich in this gracious contribution too.

for the kingdom of God does not consist in talking but in doing.

"I have told you these things in allegories, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will plainly tell you about the Father.

Although I am untrained as an orator, yet I am not so in the field of knowledge. Surely, I have always made that perfectly clear to you.

Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians, and was a mighty man in speech and action.

I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power.

For they say, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his physical personality is unimpressive, and his delivery is perfectly contemptible."

I have the greatest confidence in you; I speak most highly of you. I am fully comforted; in the face of all my sorrow my cup is running over with joy.

His disciples said to Him, "Now you are talking plainly and not in allegory at all.

A few minutes afterward the bystanders came up to Peter and said, "You are surely one of them, too, for your accent gives you away."