59 Bible Verses about speaking

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.

Go therefore and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say."

For he that speaketh with tongues speaketh not unto men, but unto God. For no man heareth him: Howbeit, in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

I will hearken what the LORD God will say concerning me; for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not themselves unto foolishness.

For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your father which speaketh in you.

For when God doth once command a thing, there should no man be curious to search whether it be right.

If any man speak with tongues, let it be two at once - or at the most three at once - and that by course, and let another interpret it:

If any man speak, let him talk as though he spake the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth unto him. That God, in all things, may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world standeth. Amen.

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all.

Be thou an advocate and stand in judgment thyself, to speak for all such as be dumb and sucourless.

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, "Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

Yet had I rather, in the congregation, to speak five words with my mind to the information of others, rather than ten thousand words with the tongue.

But he spake of the temple of his body.

Seeing then that we have the same spirit of faith, according as it is written - "I believed and therefore have I spoken" - we also believe, and therefore speak.

A time to cut in pieces, and a time to sew together; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

For it is shame even to name those things which are done of them in secret:

Jesus said unto her, "I that speak unto thee, am he."

They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not.

Take not heed unto every word that is spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought, how, or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you even in that same hour, what ye shall say.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

But that my people may know my name, I myself will speak in that day. Behold, here am I.

Why do ye not know my speech? Even because ye cannot abide the hearing of my words.

speaking unto yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,

And how hear we every man his own tongue wherein we were born?

As for Job he hath neither spoken to the purpose nor wisely.

O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD!

And it shall be, that before they call, I shall answer them. While they are yet but thinking how to speak, I shall hear them.

And the LORD answered me thus, "Say not so, 'I am too young': For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee unto, and whatsoever I command thee, that shalt thou speak.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he.

Tell nothing into the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Let your wives keep silence in the congregations. For it is not permitted unto them to speak: but let them be under obedience, as saith the law.

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.

The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb; as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.

And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak until the time that these things be performed, because thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season."

And therefore the LORD also shall speak with lisping lips and with a strange language unto this people, to whom he spake afore of this manner:

Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD God of Hosts, "Because ye speak such words, behold: The words that are in thy mouth will I turn to fire, and make the people to be wood, that it may consume them.