Quotes About Speech

Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.

As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.

Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

The words of a wise manís mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.

The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.

“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ëThe LORD declares it.í”

But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is Godís throne;

Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

And when the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.

Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed the man so that he could speak and see.

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

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

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.