Matthew 5:37 But let your language be, 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no.' Anything in excess of this comes from the Evil one. (WEY)
Matthew 9:3 "Such language is impious," said some of the Scribes among themselves. (WEY)
Matthew 13:3 He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. "The sower goes out," He said, "to sow. (WEY)
Matthew 13:10 (And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?" (WEY)
Matthew 13:13 I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand. (WEY)
Matthew 13:34 All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them, (WEY)
Matthew 13:35 in fulfilment of the saying of the Prophet, "I will open my mouth in figurative language, I will utter things kept hidden since the creation of all things." (WEY)
Matthew 15:15 "Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter. (WEY)
Matthew 22:1 Again Jesus spoke to them in figurative language. (WEY)
Matthew 24:15 "When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel) (WEY)
Matthew 26:65 Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety. (WEY)
Mark 3:23 So He called them to Him, and using figurative language He appealed to them, saying, "How is it possible for Satan to expel Satan? (WEY)
Mark 4:2 Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said, (WEY)
Mark 4:10 When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language. (WEY)
Mark 4:11 "To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language; (WEY)
Mark 4:34 But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private. (WEY)
Mark 7:22 thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly; (DBY)
Mark 12:1 Then He began to speak to them in figurative language. "There was once a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a pit for the wine-tank, and built a strong lodge. Then he let the place to vine-dressers and went abroad. (WEY)
Luke 1:20 Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time. (BBE)
Luke 4:32 And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority. (WEY)
Luke 4:36 All were astonished and awe-struck; and they asked one another, "What sort of language is this? For with authority and real power He gives orders to the foul spirits and they come out." (WEY)
Luke 5:36 He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one," He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one. Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch from the new would not match the old. (WEY)
Luke 6:39 He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch? (WEY)
Luke 15:3 So in figurative language He asked them, (WEY)
Luke 20:20 And having watched him, they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in his language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. (DBY)
John 8:44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father. (See NIV)
John 10:6 Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant. (WEY)
John 10:21 Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a demon open blind men's eyes?" (WEY)
John 16:25 "All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words. (WEY BBE NAS NIV)
John 16:29 "Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech! (WEY BBE)
Acts 1:19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called'Akeldama,' that is,'The field of blood.' (WEB WEY ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Acts 2:6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Acts 2:8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? (WEB WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Acts 2:11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!" (Root in WEB WEY BBE WBS)
Acts 14:11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" (WEB WEY BBE NAS NIV)
Acts 15:15 And this is in harmony with the language of the Prophets, which says: (WEY)
Acts 18:6 But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles." (WEY)
Acts 21:40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying, (WEB ASV BBE WBS RSV)
Acts 22:2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said, (WEB ASV BBE WBS RSV)
Acts 26:14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' (WEB ASV BBE WBS RSV)
Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous--I speak in our everyday language-- when He inflicts punishment? (WEY)
Romans 9:9 For the words are the language of promise and run thus, "About this time next year I will come, and Sarah shall have a son." (WEY)
1 Corinthians 2:4 And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home; (WEY)
1 Corinthians 2:13 Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us, but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do, spiritual words to spiritual truths. (WEY BBE)
1 Corinthians 5:11 But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat. (WEY BBE)
1 Corinthians 6:10 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom. (WEY BBE)
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child. (BBE)
1 Corinthians 14:2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. (WEB WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. (WEB WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language. (Root in WEY NAS RSV NIV)
1 Corinthians 14:11 If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue. (WEY NAS RSV)
1 Corinthians 14:13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. (WEB WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. (WEB WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. (WEB WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. (WEB WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:27 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. (WEB WBS)
2 Corinthians 1:18 As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No." (WEY)
2 Corinthians 11:21 I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is 'courageous' --I speak in mere folly--I also am courageous. (WEY)
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice. (WEY DBY)
Colossians 3:8 But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (DBY NIV)
Colossians 4:6 Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer. (WEY)
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness; (WEY)
1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, (See NAS)
Titus 2:8 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us. (WEY)
1 Peter 2:22 He never sinned, and no deceitful language was ever heard from His mouth. (WEY)
2 Peter 2:11 Though the angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not make use of violent language against them before the Lord. (BBE)
1 John 4:5 They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children. (WEY)
Revelation 5:9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, (WEB WEY BBE WBS NIV)
Revelation 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. (Root in WEB WEY BBE WBS NIV)
Revelation 9:11 They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon. (BBE WBS)
Revelation 11:9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. (Root in WEB WEY BBE WBS NIV)
Revelation 13:7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. (WEB WEY BBE WBS NIV)
Revelation 14:6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people. (WEB WEY BBE WBS NIV)
Genesis 10:5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations. (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 11:1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 11:6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 11:7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 42:23 They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language. (BBE)
Deuteronomy 28:49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand; (WEB BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 18:26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)
2 Kings 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)
2 Chronicles 32:18 They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV)
Ezra 4:7 In the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian character, and set forth in the Syrian language. (WEB BBE WBS NIV)
Nehemiah 13:24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 1:22 for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 3:12 Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 8:9 Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Job 15:5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. (WEB NAS)
Psalms 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NIV)
Psalms 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun, (DBY)
Psalms 55:9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. (WEB)
Psalms 81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Psalms 114:1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 17:20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble. (See NAS)
Isaiah 19:18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 28:11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language; (WEB)
Isaiah 33:19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand. (WEB BBE)
Isaiah 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 5:15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)