Bible Verses About Words

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

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

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

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

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.