Quotes about Speech
He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
- Proverbs 21:23
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
- Proverbs 22:18
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
- Proverbs 23:8
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
- Proverbs 23:16
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
- Proverbs 24:7
lest the one who hears may disgrace you, and your infamy never go away.
- Proverbs 25:10
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
- Proverbs 25:11
Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
- Proverbs 26:7
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
- Proverbs 26:20
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- Proverbs 26:23
A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.
- Proverbs 26:24
When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.
- Proverbs 26:25