88 Bible Verses about Lips

As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.

“My words are from the uprightness of my heart,
And my lips speak knowledge sincerely.

I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed.

Awake, drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is cut off from your mouth.

A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

“But would that God might speak,
And open His lips against you,

“I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of Your lips
I have kept from the paths of the violent.

“My covenant I will not violate,
Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a remote place;
Burning is His anger and dense is His smoke;
His lips are filled with indignation
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

A Psalm of David when he feigned madness before Abimelech, who drove him away and he departed.
I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips will praise You.

Let my lips utter praise,
For You teach me Your statutes.

Creating the praise of the lips.
Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near,”
Says the Lord, “and I will heal him.”

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.

You have given him his heart’s desire,
And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

“Please hear my argument
And listen to the contentions of my lips.

A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.

And it shall serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips; and they were saying, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

“However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,

You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God, what you have promised.

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You know.

With my lips I have told of
All the ordinances of Your mouth.

Then they said, “What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth.”

“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

The lips of the righteous feed many,
But fools die for lack of understanding.

“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
And your lips with shouting.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my soul, which You have redeemed.

But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?”

I heard and my inward parts trembled,
At the sound my lips quivered.
Decay enters my bones,
And in my place I tremble.
Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,
For the people to arise who will invade us.

Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

“Is there injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my palate discern calamities?

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

“As for the head of those who surround me,
May the mischief of their lips cover them.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth
And put devious speech far from you.

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

Leave the presence of a fool,
Or you will not discern words of knowledge.

An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

A fool’s lips bring strife,
And his mouth calls for blows.
A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips.

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

He who conceals hatred has lying lips,
And he who spreads slander is a fool.

For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross
Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
He who hates disguises it with his lips,
But he lays up deceit in his heart.

You have planted them, they have also taken root;
They grow, they have even produced fruit.
You are near to their lips
But far from their mind.

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

Then the Lord said,
“Because this people draw near with their words
And honor Me with their lip service,
But they remove their hearts far from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,

Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is only for a moment.

“Listen, for I will speak noble things;
And the opening of my lips will reveal right things.
“For my mouth will utter truth;
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings,
And he who speaks right is loved.

And my inmost being will rejoice
When your lips speak what is right.

But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You,
Nor have I longed for the woeful day;
You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips
Was in Your presence.

True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity. For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

The lips of the righteous bring forth what is acceptable,
But the mouth of the wicked what is perverted.

On the lips of the discerning, wisdom is found,
But a rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge,
But the hearts of fools are not so.

There is gold, and an abundance of jewels;
But the lips of knowledge are a more precious thing.

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,
And apply your mind to my knowledge;
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,
That they may be ready on your lips.

A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words,
And the deeds of a man’s hands will return to him.

From the fruit of a man’s mouth he enjoys good,
But the desire of the treacherous is violence.

With the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied;
He will be satisfied with the product of his lips.

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his back,
But the lips of the wise will protect them.

A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.

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

Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.

The one who guards his mouth preserves his life;
The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Who is the man who desires life
And loves length of days that he may see good?

He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.”

“For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
So that they will be mentioned by their names no more.