Bible Verses About Words

Who is this--darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

Joy is to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season--how good!

The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times.

Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, And the latter end of his mouth Is mischievous madness.

And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give--how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;