Words & Speech Verses

Question 1

Proverbs 18:21

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Proverbs 18:7

Answer 2

A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Question 3

Proverbs 21:23

Answer 3

Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Question 4

James 1:26

Answer 4

If anyone among you
thinks he is religious,
and does not bridle his tongue
but deceives his own heart,
this one’s religion is useless.

Question 5

Proverbs 18:2

Answer 5

A fool has no delight in understanding,
but in expressing his own heart.

Question 6

Proverbs 29:20

Answer 6

Do you see a man hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Question 7

Proverbs 29:11

Answer 7

A fool vents all his feelings,
but a wise man holds them back.

Question 8

Proverbs 18:13

Answer 8

He who answers a matter
before he hears it,
it is folly and shame to him.

Question 9

Psalm 141:3

Answer 9

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.

Question 10

Philippians 2:14-16

Answer 10

Do all things without complaining and disputing,
that you may become blameless and harmless,
children of God without fault
in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,
among whom you shine
as lights in the world,
holding fast the word of life,
so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ
that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

Question 11

Ephesians 4:31-32

Answer 11

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger,
clamor, and evil speaking
be put away from you,
with all malice.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Question 12

Proverbs 13:3

Answer 12

He who guards his mouth preserves his life,
but he who opens wide his lips
shall have destruction.

Question 13

Proverbs 10:19

Answer 13

In the multitude of words
sin is not lacking,
but he who restrains his lips is wise.

Question 14

2 Timothy 2:16

Answer 14

But shun profane and idle babblings,
for they will increase to more ungodliness.

Question 15

Matthew 12:36-37

Answer 15

But I say to you that for every
idle word men may speak,
they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

Question 16

Proverbs 15:1

Answer 16

A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Question 17

Ephesians 4:29

Answer 17

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Question 18

Proverbs 17:28

Answer 18

Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace;
When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

Question 19

Proverbs 10:11

Answer 19

The mouth of the righteous is a well of life,
But violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Question 20

Proverbs 16:23

Answer 20

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth,
And adds learning to his lips.

Question 21

James 3:2

Answer 21

For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Question 22

Titus 3:1-3

Answer 22

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Question 23

Titus 2:3-5

Answer 23

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Question 24

Proverbs 31:26

Answer 24

[The virtuous wife]…
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
and on her tongue is the law of kindness.

Question 25

Proverbs 16:24

Answer 25

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

Question 26

Psalm 37:30-31

Answer 26

The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom,
and his tongue talks of justice.
The law of his God is in his heart;
none of his steps shall slide.