Bible Verses About Speech
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for speech, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,451 votes, led by Ephesians 4:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Speech
Ephesians 4:29152 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.
Psalms 141:3107 votes
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms 19:1491 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 18:1365 votes
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Psalms 49:364 votes
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Proverbs 8:1359 votes
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 18:2158 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
James 1:1951 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 15:148 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Psalms 37:30-3143 votes
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Proverbs 21:2343 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
James 3:2-1039 votes
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Proverbs 16:2438 votes
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
James 3:9-1038 votes
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Proverbs 15:432 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Ephesians 4:1530 votes
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Matthew 15:1129 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Colossians 3:1727 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
James 5:1226 votes
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Matthew 12:3625 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Ecclesiastes 9:1723 votes
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Acts 18:9-1023 votes
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
Psalms 36:3-422 votes
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Ephesians 4:1-3220 votes
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Proverbs 13:318 votes
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
What does the Bible say about speech?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:29 on the subject of speech. Across 1,451 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 141:3, Psalms 19:14, Proverbs 18:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.