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Want to know what the Bible says about Language? Here are 62 Bible verses about Language from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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1 Corinthians 14:27-28 NIV
27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
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Deuteronomy 28:49 NIV
The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
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Isaiah 28:11 NIV
Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
    God will speak to this people,
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Jeremiah 5:15 NIV
People of Israel,” declares the Lord,
    “I am bringing a distant nation against you—
an ancient and enduring nation,
    a people whose language you do not know,
    whose speech you do not understand.
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Judges 12:6 NIV
they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.’” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
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Matthew 26:73 NIV
After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, “Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.”
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John 19:20 NIV
Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
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Acts 2:7-8 NIV
7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
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Acts 10:46 NIV
For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.
Then Peter said,
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Nehemiah 13:24 NIV
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah.
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