'Words' in the Bible

You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: None of my words shall be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.

[Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for am I now sent to you. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

Then he said to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words' sake.

and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."

He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don't my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?"

Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"

Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,

He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.

Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

"Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men."

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

They remembered his words,

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

"Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

"Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."

Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.'

So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."

The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."