14 Bible Verses about Too Many Words
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"Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein?
Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.
Thus with your mouths ye have made your boast against me; yea, and multiplied your proud words against me, which I have heard altogether.
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, for ye devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of praying long prayers, wherefore ye shall receive greater damnation.
And on the morrow after the Sabbath day the disciples came together for to break bread, and Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued the preaching unto midnight.
Many things there be that increase vanity, and what hath a man else?
Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.
A righteous man museth in his mind how to do good; but the mind of the ungodly imagineth how he may do harm.
A fool is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he shall make. Who will then warn him of it that shall follow after him?
For where much carefulness is, there are many dreams: and where many words are, there men may hear fools.
"Should a wise man's answer be as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east?
He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life; but whoso speaketh unadvised, findeth harm.
Therefore hath Job opened his mouth but in vain, and foolishly hath he made so many words."
