29 Bible Verses about When to Speak (KJV)

Here are 29 Bible verses about when to speak, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

James 1:19 KJV

¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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Colossians 4:6 KJV

⁶Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

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Proverbs 12:18 KJV

¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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James 3:2 KJV

²For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

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Proverbs 15:28 KJV

²⁸The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

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Proverbs 15:23 KJV

²³A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

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Ephesians 5:11 KJV

¹¹And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Matthew 5:10-12 KJV

¹⁰Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. ¹²Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

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Proverbs 31:8 KJV

⁸Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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1 Peter 3:15 KJV

¹⁵But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

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James 3:13 KJV

¹³Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

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2 Timothy 3:5 KJV

⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

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Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 KJV

¹Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. ²Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

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Proverbs 17:27 KJV

²⁷He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

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Galatians 6:1-3 KJV

¹Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. ²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. ³For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

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Acts 11:19 KJV

¹⁹Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.

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2 Timothy 2:12 KJV

¹²If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

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Ephesians 1:11 KJV

¹¹In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

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1 Corinthians 2:1-16 KJV

¹And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. ²For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, …

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Hebrews 12:5-14 KJV

⁵And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: ⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? …

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Romans 10:10-17 KJV

¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. ¹²For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. ¹³For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall …

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Matthew 11:28-30 KJV

²⁸Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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Romans 9:15-16 KJV

¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. ¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

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Romans 1:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. ¹⁷For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

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Acts 8:1 KJV

¹And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

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Mark 7:20-23 KJV

²⁰And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²²Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²³All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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Psalm 76:10 KJV

¹⁰Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

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