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100 Bible Verses about Speaking Things Into Existence

Romans 4:17 ESV / 4,513 helpful votes

As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 4,455 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 3,032 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 2,888 helpful votes

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Mark 11:22-24 ESV / 2,809 helpful votes

And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 2,541 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2,408 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

1 Corinthians 1:28 ESV / 2,201 helpful votes

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

2 Corinthians 4:13 ESV / 2,142 helpful votes

Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2,064 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Genesis 1:3 ESV / 1,922 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 1,878 helpful votes

As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 1,855 helpful votes

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Matthew 12:34-36 ESV / 1,810 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Hebrews 11:1-10 ESV / 1,719 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Ezekiel 12:25 ESV / 1,701 helpful votes

For I am the Lord; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 37:1-10 ESV / 1,692 helpful votes

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. ...

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 1,481 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

John 1:1 ESV / 1,440 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 1,354 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Mark 11:24 ESV / 1,352 helpful votes

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 1,315 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Psalm 33:9 ESV / 1,298 helpful votes

For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

Mark 11:22 ESV / 1,281 helpful votes

And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

John 1:14 ESV / 1,229 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 1,201 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 1,201 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 1,170 helpful votes

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

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 1,168 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 1,143 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

John 1:3 ESV / 1,127 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,108 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Romans 4:18 ESV / 1,057 helpful votes

In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 1,056 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 1,032 helpful votes

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1,008 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 973 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 961 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Romans 4:16 ESV / 916 helpful votes

That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 891 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 877 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Hebrews 11:2 ESV / 870 helpful votes

For by it the people of old received their commendation.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 867 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

James 1:19 ESV / 856 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 849 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 848 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 848 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Psalm 82:6 ESV / 839 helpful votes

I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 838 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 17:5 ESV / 835 helpful votes

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

John 14:6 ESV / 832 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Hebrews 11:4 ESV / 824 helpful votes

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 815 helpful votes

Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 802 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Isaiah 42:9 ESV / 767 helpful votes

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Isaiah 26:3-4 ESV / 764 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 762 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 754 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 750 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 730 helpful votes

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

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 723 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

John 14:1 ESV / 718 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 716 helpful votes

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Luke 8:48 ESV / 716 helpful votes

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

John 14:1-31 ESV / 714 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 707 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 665 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 662 helpful votes

The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Matthew 6:10 ESV / 660 helpful votes

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

John 14:7 ESV / 658 helpful votes

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

John 1:18 ESV / 653 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 641 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 4:2 ESV / 640 helpful votes

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 631 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 628 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Genesis 1:19 ESV / 612 helpful votes

And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

Luke 6:45 ESV / 601 helpful votes

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 588 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 585 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

John 1:2 ESV / 578 helpful votes

He was in the beginning with God.

Romans 1:25 ESV / 523 helpful votes

Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

James 3:2 ESV / 509 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 498 helpful votes

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

John 3:16 ESV / 494 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 486 helpful votes

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 476 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 457 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

1 John 5:14 ESV / 452 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 448 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 447 helpful votes

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 446 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Revelation 4:11 ESV / 440 helpful votes

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

1 John 5:19 ESV / 431 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 422 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 413 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 412 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

John 6:63 ESV / 409 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 11:26 ESV / 406 helpful votes

And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Romans 10:8-10 ESV / 398 helpful votes

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 395 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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