Bible Verses About Words

Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.

A word fitly spoken Islikeapples of gold in network of silver.

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool’s voice with a multitude of words.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.