WORDS

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• Exodus 5:9

  Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

• Job 8:2

  “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

• Job 38:2

  “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

• Psalms 19:14

  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

• Psalms 55:21

  His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

• Proverbs 6:2

  You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

• Proverbs 10:19

  In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

• Proverbs 15:23

  Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

• Proverbs 18:8

  The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

• Proverbs 25:11

  A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

• Proverbs 29:20

  Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

• Ecclesiastes 5:3

  For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

• Ecclesiastes 10:12

  The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

• Ecclesiastes 10:13

  The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

• Ecclesiastes 10:14

  A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

• Ecclesiastes 12:11

  The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

• Isaiah 50:4

  The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

• Matthew 12:36

  I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

• Matthew 12:37

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

• Luke 4:22

  All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

• John 6:63

  It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

• John 6:68

  Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

• John 12:47

  If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

• John 12:48

  He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

• Romans 16:18

  For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

• 1 Corinthians 14:9

  So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

• 1 Corinthians 14:19

  However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

• 2 Corinthians 12:4

  how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

• Ephesians 5:6

  Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

• 2 Timothy 2:14

  Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

• James 3:2

  For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.