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Bible Verses About language

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What does the Bible say about language? Browse 18 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Genesis 11:1
King James (KJV)And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. language: Heb. lip. speech: Heb. words

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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. language: Heb. lip. speech: Heb. words
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. language: Heb. lip consent: Heb. shoulder
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. easy: Gr. significant
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 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. eloquent: Heb. a man of words heretofore: Heb. since yesterday, nor since the third day
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; understand: Heb. hear
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork .
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.
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification .
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
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. two: by two or three sentences separately
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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.
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. stammering: Heb. stammerings of lip will: or, he hath spoken
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
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,)
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.

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