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What does the Bible say about speech?

17 verses about speech, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about speech

Ephesians 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 8 votes
Psalms 141:3 — Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 6 votes
Psalms 19:14 — Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. 5 votes
Psalms 49:3 — My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. 3 votes
Proverbs 8:13 — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. 3 votes
Proverbs 15:1 — A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. 3 votes
Proverbs 18:13 — He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 3 votes
Proverbs 18:21 — Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. 3 votes
James 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 3 votes
Psalms 37:30 — The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 2 votes
Proverbs 15:4 — A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 2 votes
Proverbs 16:24 — Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 2 votes
Proverbs 21:23 — Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. 2 votes
Matthew 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 2 votes
Ephesians 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 2 votes
James 3:2 — For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 2 votes
James 3:9 — Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 2 votes

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Proverbs (7), Psalms (4), James (3), Ephesians (2), Matthew (1)

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