Mouth and lips imagery uses the mouth, lips, confession, praise, deceit, polluted lips, and fruit of lips to reveal worship, truthfulness, hypocrisy, repentance, and the moral condition of speech.
Mouth and lips imagery uses the mouth, lips, confession, praise, deceit, polluted lips, and fruit of lips to reveal worship, truthfulness, hypocrisy, repentance, and the moral condition of speech.
A speech-organ motif in which mouth and lips represent confession, praise, proclamation, deceit, hypocrisy, moral purity or impurity, and the outward expression of inward allegiance.
These examples show how Mouth and Lips Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I will be with thy mouth
The mouth becomes the instrument God promises to enable for obedient speech.
the words of my mouth
Mouth language connects spoken words with inward meditation acceptable to God.
keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile
Lips reveal the moral character of speech and must be guarded from deceit.
the lips of the righteous feed many
Righteous lips are pictured as nourishing others with wise speech.
I am a man of unclean lips
Unclean lips represent guilt and the need for purifying grace before prophetic service.
this people draw near me with their mouth... but have removed their heart
Mouth and lip language exposes hypocritical worship detached from the heart.
honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me
Jesus applies lip imagery to condemn outward religion without inward devotion.
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus
The mouth becomes the outward instrument of faith's confession.
the fruit of our lips
Lips produce praise as a sacrificial offering of thanksgiving to God.
in their mouth was found no guile
A guileless mouth marks truthful allegiance and purity among the redeemed.
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