Bible Verses About Power of Words
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for power of words, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 711,287 votes, led by Proverbs 18:21. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Power of Words
Proverbs 18:2117,969 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Ephesians 4:2917,042 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Proverbs 12:1815,328 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Matthew 12:3613,735 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Proverbs 16:2413,238 votes
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 15:112,933 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 21:2312,894 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Hebrews 4:1211,728 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Proverbs 15:411,560 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
James 1:2610,481 votes
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Psalms 19:1410,267 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.
Proverbs 13:310,065 votes
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Romans 1:169,176 votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Matthew 12:378,643 votes
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Psalms 119:1058,626 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Proverbs 10:198,552 votes
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
2 Timothy 3:168,450 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Colossians 4:68,204 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Matthew 4:48,072 votes
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
James 1:227,914 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
2 Timothy 3:16-177,676 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
John 15:37,323 votes
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
1 Corinthians 1:187,118 votes
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Colossians 3:87,107 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Matthew 15:187,033 votes
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.