Quotes About Words

Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ëThey are desolate; they are given to us to devour!í

You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

He said to me, “Daniel, you are a man who is highly precious. Consider carefully the words that I am about to say to you. Stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he had said this to me, I stood up trembling.

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ëJust as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.í”

So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ëWhat have we spoken against You?í

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ëRaca,í will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ëYou fool!í will be subject to the fire of hell.

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.”

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

Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.

If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Fatherís glory with the holy angels.”

Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. “Isnít this the son of Joseph?” they asked.

If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.