Bible Verses about “language”

“¶ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

“The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;”

“¶ And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.”

“And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.”

“And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”

“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;”

“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

“If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.”

“Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.”

“Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,”

“¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.”

“And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”

“But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.”

“¶ And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.”

“And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?”

“Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,”

“Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”

“So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.”

“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”

“¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”

“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”

“Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

“So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”

“And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.”

“Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.”

“¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

“There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification.”

“And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?”

“Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.”

“¶ And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I [am] not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I [am] slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

“And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.”

“Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”

“[There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard.”

“Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,”

“For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.”

“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.”

“¶ The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.”

“Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.”

“(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)”