Bible Verses about “language”

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.”

“Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;”

“Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.”

“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.”

“Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.”

“Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.”

“Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”

“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.”

“They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."”

“If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.”

“When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.”

“Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,”

“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”

“How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?”

“But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.”

“Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.”

“They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?”

“Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,”

“Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"”

“So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.”

“They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.”

“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”

“Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."”

“Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.”

“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”

“It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.”

“Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.”

“The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.”

“There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.”

“Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?”

“Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."”

“Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."”

“They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"”

“Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.”

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

“Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,”

“For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.”

“But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;”

“The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.”

“Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.”

“When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,”