Power Of Words

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Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 285 helpful votes Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 176 helpful votes There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Matthew 15:18 ESV / 163 helpful votes But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 135 helpful votes Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Matthew 12:36 ESV / 111 helpful votes I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 103 helpful votes Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. Colossians 3:8 ESV / 97 helpful votes But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 73 helpful votes Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. James 1:26 ESV / 72 helpful votes If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Matthew 12:37 ESV / 62 helpful votes For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 58 helpful votes Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble. Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 57 helpful votes A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 54 helpful votes Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Psalm 19:14 ESV / 49 helpful votes Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. James 3:1-12 ESV / 41 helpful votes Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are

guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ... Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 37 helpful votes Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 35 helpful votes Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. Proverbs 15:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. John 1:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Luke 6:45 ESV / 32 helpful votes The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Romans 12:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Proverbs 16:23-24 ESV / 30 helpful votes The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips. Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. Matthew 7:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. John 8:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 22 helpful votes Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ... Romans 10:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 22 helpful votes You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent. Isaiah 44:1-28 ESV / 20 helpful votes But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen. For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams. This one will say, I am the Lord's, another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, The Lord's, and name himself by the name of Israel. ... John 8:31-32 ESV / 18 helpful votes So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord. Psalm 118:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord. John 1:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. James 1:22-27 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. ... Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 14 helpful votes Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ... Psalm 109:1-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise! For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. ... 2 John 1:1-13 ESV / 13 helpful votes The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth, because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. And now I ask you, dear lady not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning that we love one another. ... Genesis 15:1-21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great. But Abram said, O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir. And he brought him outside and said, Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them. Then he said to him, So shall your offspring be. ... Proverbs 18:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips. Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 12 helpful votes And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ... Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. John 4:1-54 ESV / 10 helpful votes Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ... Proverbs 6:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

If you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 1 Kings 3:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. Leviticus 5:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear theLord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ... Jeremiah 17:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills, on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever. Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. ... Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. Romans 4:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. John 10:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Ecclesiastes 7:20-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others. Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... Hebrews 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 6 helpful votes And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. But

they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ... Numbers 14:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: Romans 8:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness. Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ... Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Luke 10:18-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Isaiah 48:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them. ... Genesis 11:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

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