Bible Verses about “idle talk”
The Bible contains 22 verses about idle talk across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”
“Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.”
“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”
“nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.”
“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.”
“And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.”
“Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.”
“In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.”
“So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!”
“Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.”
“A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.”
“But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,”
“He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.”
“The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.”
“The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.”
“To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.”
“For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,”
“Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;”
“For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.”
“Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.”