Bible Verses About Speech
53 Scriptures on Speech

Bible Verses About Speech

1 Corinthians 1:5

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

1 Corinthians 2:1

When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

1 Corinthians 2:4

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

1 Kings 3:10

The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Samuel 16:18

Then one of the young men answered, and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and the LORD is with him."

2 Corinthians 10:10

For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

2 Corinthians 11:6

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

2 Corinthians 3:12

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

2 Corinthians 7:4

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

2 Samuel 19:11

King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

Acts 12:21

On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.

Acts 20:7

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Additions to Esther 8:13

Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the king; turn his heart to hate him that fights against us, so that there may be an end of him and of all that are likeminded to him.

Colossians 2:4

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

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

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Exodus 4:10

Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

Ezekiel 3:5

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 3:6

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

Genesis 11:1

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

Genesis 4:23

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

Isaiah 28:23

Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

Isaiah 29:4

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 32:9

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.

Jeremiah 31:23

Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: the LORD bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.

Job 12:20

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Job 13:17

Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

Job 21:2

"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Job 24:25

If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"

Job 29:22

After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.

Job 33:1

"However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

John 16:25

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16:29

His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.

John 8:43

Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

Judith 9:13

and make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who have resolved cruel things against your covenant and your hallowed house, and against the top of Zion and the house of the possession of your children;

Mark 14:70

But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."

Mark 7:32

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

Matthew 26:73

After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."

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