Quotes About Words

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

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

For as many dreams bring futility, so do many words. Therefore, fear God.

For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

The calm words of the wise are heeded over the shouts of a ruler among fools.

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

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ëYou are My people.í”

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.

These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ëThis is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.í

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.