40 Bible Verses about speaking

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1 Corinthians 14:9

So if you in your ecstatic speaking utter words no one can understand, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the empty air!

1 Corinthians 14:2

For anyone who speaks ecstatically is speaking not to men but to God, for no one can understand him, though he is uttering secret truths.

1 Corinthians 14:27

If there is any ecstatic speaking, let it be limited to two or three people at the most, and have one speak at a time and someone explain what he says.

1 Corinthians 14:19

But in public worship I would rather say five words with my understanding so as to instruct others also than ten thousand words in an ecstasy.

John 2:21

But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary.

John 4:26

Jesus said to her, "I who am talking to you am he!"

1 Corinthians 14:28

But if there is no one to explain it, have him keep quiet in church, and talk to himself and to God.

John 8:43

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Acts 2:8

Then how is it that each of us hears his own native tongue?

1 Corinthians 14:34

Women are to keep quiet in church, for they are not allowed to speak. They must take a subordinate place, just as the Law says.

John 16:25

"I have said all this to you in figurative language, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Luke 1:20

Now you will keep silent and be unable to speak until the day when this happens, because you have not believed what I have said, for it will all be fulfilled in due time."

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James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.

James 4:11

Do not talk against one another, brothers. Whoever talks against a brother or condemns his brother talks against the Law, and condemns the Law. But if you condemn the Law you are not an observer of the Law but its judge.

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Matthew 12:36-37

But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment. For it is by your words that you will be acquitted, or by your words that you will be condemned."

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Christ Speaking

John 18:20

Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues or in the Temple where all the Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Christ Speaking To Disciples

Matthew 12:49

And he pointed to his disciples and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Speaking Again

Acts 10:15

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

Speaking In Christ's Name

Matthew 7:22

Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?'

Speaking In Tongues

Acts 19:1-7

It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the interior, reached Ephesus. Finding some disciples there,

The Dumb Speaking

Luke 1:64

And they were all amazed. Then his voice and the use of his tongue were immediately restored, and he blessed God aloud.

While Still Speaking

Acts 10:44

Before Peter had finished saying these words, the holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to his message.

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