The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Power Of Words

  • Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • 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.
  • But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
  • There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  • But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
  • Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  • But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
  • For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  • He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
  • A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
  • Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
  • 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.
  • Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
  • My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 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. Behold, we put bits in the ...
  • A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.