Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil 'one'. (ASV)
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech. (WEY)
Matthew 26:73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known." (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Mark 4:30 Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it? (WEY)
Mark 7:17 After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech. (WEY)
Mark 7:32 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)
Mark 9:17 One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; (See NIV)
Mark 14:70 But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." (WEB KJV WBS YLT)
Luke 20:20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor. (ASV)
John 8:43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
John 10:6 This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them; (See NAS NIV)
John 16:25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. (WEB)
John 16:29 His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.. (WEB WEY NAS NIV)
Acts 7:22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. (See NIV)
Acts 12:21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them. (WEB)
Acts 14:11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. (KJV ASV WBS YLT)
Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight. (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)
Romans 16:18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
1 Corinthians 1:5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; (WEB WEY NAS RSV)
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News-not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void. (See NAS)
1 Corinthians 2:1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS)
1 Corinthians 2:4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)
1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. (KJV WEY WBS)
1 Corinthians 14:9 So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air. (ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)
2 Corinthians 3:12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS)
2 Corinthians 6:7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, (See RSV NIV)
2 Corinthians 7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)
2 Corinthians 8:7 Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech, knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you, implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving also flourishes in you. (WEY NIV)
2 Corinthians 10:10 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised." (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
2 Corinthians 11:6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. (WEB ASV)
Philippians 1:20 in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death. (WEY)
Colossians 2:4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. (WEB ASV DBY RSV)
Colossians 3:8 but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth. (See NAS)
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)
1 Thessalonians 2:5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God 'is' witness!) (YLT NAS)
1 Timothy 3:13 For those who have filled the deacon's office wisely and well, are already gaining for themselves an honourable standing, and are acquiring great freedom of speech in proclaiming the faith which rests on Christ Jesus. (WEY)
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate. (WEY NAS RSV NIV)
Titus 2:8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
James 3:2 For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature. (WEY)
1 Peter 3:10 for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile; (See NIV)
2 Peter 2:16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. (See NIV)
1 John 3:18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. (See RSV)
Genesis 4:23 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Genesis 11:1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS 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 DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Exodus 4:10 Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Exodus 6:12 and Moses speaketh before Jehovah, saying, 'Lo, the sons of Israel have not hearkened unto me, and how doth Pharaoh hear me, and I of uncircumcised lips?' (See NAS)
Exodus 6:30 Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?" (See NAS)
Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? (Root in KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
Deuteronomy 22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: (KJV WBS)
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 16:18 Then one of the young men answered, and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him." (WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)
2 Samuel 14:20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth. (KJV WBS)
2 Samuel 19:11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying,'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
1 Kings 3:10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
2 Chronicles 32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. (KJV WBS)
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 WBS)
Job 6:26 Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Job 12:20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Job 13:17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Job 21:2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Job 24:25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Job 29:22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Job 33:1 "However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Job 37:19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. (KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Psalms 17:6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Psalms 19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 55:9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. (See NIV)
Psalms 55:21 Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords. (Root in JPS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 64:3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, (See NAS)
Psalms 81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when He went forth against the land of Egypt. The speech of one that I knew not did I hear: (JPS)
Proverbs 1:21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: (See NIV)
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things; (See RSV)
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you. (See NAS RSV)
Proverbs 5:3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; (See NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 6:12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; (See RSV)
Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me. (See RSV NIV)
Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them. (WEB NIV)
Proverbs 16:21 The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased. (See NAS RSV)
Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips. (See RSV)
Proverbs 16:27 A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire. (WEB RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:7 Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted. (See NAS RSV)
Proverbs 22:11 He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 26:25 When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart. (WEB NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words. (WEB NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:6 Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands. (See NAS)
Song of Songs 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)
Song of Songs 5:16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. (See RSV)
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath. (See NAS RSV)
Isaiah 18:2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers. (See NIV)
Isaiah 28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Isaiah 29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
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 KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speech, (DBY)
Jeremiah 5:15 Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation -- strong it 'is', a nation -- from of old it 'is', A nation -- thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh. (See NIV)