Bible Verses About The Power of Words

1. 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.

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

3. So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

4. Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

6. I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

7. There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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

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

10. So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

11. Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Verses quoted from the World English Bible (public domain).

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