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100 Bible Verses about Words Of My Mouth

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 2,630 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2,284 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.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 1,758 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 1,696 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 1,674 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 1,673 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 1,576 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 1,531 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 1,450 helpful votes

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 1,412 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 1,410 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Matthew 12:37 ESV / 1,396 helpful votes

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

James 1:26 ESV / 1,333 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 1,289 helpful votes

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 1,238 helpful votes

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 1,056 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 889 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 860 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 838 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Luke 6:45 ESV / 828 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.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 826 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 802 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 787 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 780 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Proverbs 18:20 ESV / 760 helpful votes

From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 757 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Job 23:12 ESV / 746 helpful votes

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 718 helpful votes

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

James 1:19 ESV / 660 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 655 helpful votes

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Proverbs 15:2 ESV / 655 helpful votes

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 654 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.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 632 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 631 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 601 helpful votes

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

James 3:2 ESV / 599 helpful votes

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:12 ESV / 595 helpful votes

The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

John 1:1 ESV / 589 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Proverbs 12:6 ESV / 578 helpful votes

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 572 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 568 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 3:8 ESV / 568 helpful votes

But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

John 16:13 ESV / 555 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Proverbs 4:24 ESV / 541 helpful votes

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

Proverbs 10:32 ESV / 525 helpful votes

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 520 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 519 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 502 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 480 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

James 3:10 ESV / 471 helpful votes

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 469 helpful votes

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Psalm 104:34 ESV / 453 helpful votes

May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 452 helpful votes

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 445 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Psalm 51:15 ESV / 444 helpful votes

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Psalm 18:2 ESV / 438 helpful votes

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

1 Peter 1:25 ESV / 432 helpful votes

But the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 432 helpful votes

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 431 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Psalm 33:6 ESV / 425 helpful votes

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 407 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 405 helpful votes

For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 403 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Psalm 71:8 ESV / 403 helpful votes

My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.

Proverbs 4:5 ESV / 390 helpful votes

Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

James 3:5 ESV / 388 helpful votes

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 16:23 ESV / 387 helpful votes

The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

Proverbs 18:6 ESV / 376 helpful votes

A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.

Proverbs 18:4 ESV / 373 helpful votes

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

John 3:3 ESV / 372 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Proverbs 10:6 ESV / 367 helpful votes

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

John 14:26 ESV / 364 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

1 John 4:2 ESV / 357 helpful votes

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

Matthew 12:34-37 ESV / 356 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. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 353 helpful votes

Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 346 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 334 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Proverbs 18:7 ESV / 327 helpful votes

A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Psalm 34:1 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Romans 3:13 ESV / 321 helpful votes

“Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”

Revelation 22:19 ESV / 319 helpful votes

And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

John 15:7 ESV / 317 helpful votes

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Matthew 15:18 ESV / 317 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 4:1-5:23 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

2 Peter 3:13 ESV / 313 helpful votes

But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Psalm 66:17 ESV / 312 helpful votes

I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.

Daniel 10:3 ESV / 308 helpful votes

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Proverbs 31:8 ESV / 308 helpful votes

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 306 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Psalm 39:1 ESV / 302 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Psalm 19:1 ESV / 299 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 292 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Ezekiel 33:22 ESV / 286 helpful votes

Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 276 helpful votes

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

John 5:24 ESV / 259 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

1 John 4:2-3 ESV / 256 helpful votes

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

Revelation 22:7 ESV / 251 helpful votes

“And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

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