Bible Verses About Words

Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of mine heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

Thou art snared with the wordes of thy mouth: thou art euen taken with the woordes of thine owne mouth.

In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due season?

The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.

A word spoken in his place, is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer.

Seest thou a man hastie in his matters? there is more hope of a foole, then of him.

When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.

The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.

For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?

The Lord God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.

But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.

For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.

For they that are such, serue not the Lord Iesus Christ, but their owne bellies, and with faire speach and flattering deceiue the heartes of the simple.

So likewise you, by the tongue, except yee vtter wordes that haue signification, howe shall it be vnderstand what is spoken? for ye shall speake in the ayre.

Yet had I rather in the Church to speake fiue wordes with mine vnderstanding, that I might also instruct others, then ten thousande wordes in a strange tongue.

How that he was taken vp into Paradise, and heard words which cannot be spoken, which are not possible for man to vtter.

Of these things put them in remembrance, and protest before the Lord, that they striue not about wordes, which is to no profit, but to the peruerting of the hearers.

For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.