Bible Verses About Free Speech
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for free speech, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,067 votes, led by Proverbs 31:8-9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Free Speech
Proverbs 31:8-9241 votes
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Ecclesiastes 7:21-22236 votes
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Galatians 4:16158 votes
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Romans 14:1123 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 Timothy 2:24-26101 votes
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Deuteronomy 1:16-1794 votes
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Psalms 109:2873 votes
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
Matthew 12:3672 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
1 Peter 4:1471 votes
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Luke 6:22-2462 votes
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
Proverbs 18:2151 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Colossians 4:651 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
John 16:12-3349 votes
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
1 Peter 2:1649 votes
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Psalms 141:347 votes
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Acts 5:3347 votes
When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
2 Thessalonians 2:246 votes
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Acts 26:2145 votes
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Romans 1:1831 votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
1 Samuel 17:2928 votes
And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
Psalms 19:1428 votes
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalms 119:16528 votes
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Proverbs 22:828 votes
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Luke 19:26-4428 votes
For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
1 Corinthians 5:1228 votes
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
What does the Bible say about free speech?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 31:8-9 on the subject of free speech. Across 3,067 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 7:21-22, Galatians 4:16, Romans 14:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.