Biblical Concept: Speech

Findings

^NASGenesis 11:7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand

one another's speech."

Anti-Babel confused language/speech. (Note Deuteronomy 32:8)

Moses: “I am slow of speech”

Moses: “I am unskilled in speech”

David: “prudent in speech”

^NASPsalm 55:21 His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war; His words were softer than

oil, Yet they were drawn swords.

“They aimed bitter speech as their arrow”

Adulteress: “smoother than oil is her speech”

“sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness”

“Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool”

Better, poor man, integrity versus perverse in speech, fool.

“whose speech is gracious, the king is his friend”

Solomon: “Do not let your speech cause you to sin.”

Isaiah re Jerusalem and Judah: “their speech and their actions are against the LORD”

Jesus: “Figure of speech”

Disciples to Jesus: “You are speaking plainly” versus “a figure of speech”

“smooth and flattering speech they deceive”

“enriched in Him, in all speech”

“preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech”

Paul: “I did not come with superiority of speech”

“unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear”

Paul: “we use great boldness in our speech”

Re Paul: “his speech contemptible”

Paul: “even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge”

‘Put aside’: “abusive speech from your mouth”

“speech always be with grace”

“we never came with flattering speech”

Paul to Timothy: “speech” … “show yourself an example”

Paul to Titus: “sound in speech”

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Speech

^NASGenesis 4:23 And Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me;

^NASGenesis 11:7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (All) (Anti-Babel confused language/speech.) (Note Deuteronomy 32:8)

^NASExodus 4:10 Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since Thou hast spoken to Thy servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." (Moses: “I am slow of speech”)

^NASExodus 6:12 But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?" (Moses: “I am unskilled in speech”)

³⁰ But Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?"

^NASDeuteronomy 32:2 "Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb.

^NAS1 Samuel 16:18 Then one of the young men answered and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, and a handsome man; and the LORD is with him." (David: “prudent in speech”)

^NASJob 12:20 "He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.

^NASJob 13:17 "Listen carefully to my speech, And let my declaration fill your ears.

^NASJob 21:2 "Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation.

^NASJob 24:25 "Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?"

^NASJob 29:22 "After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them.

^NASJob 33:1 "However now, Job, please hear my speech, And listen to all my words.

^NASPsalm 17:6 I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; Incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

^NASPsalm 19:2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.

³ There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard.

^NASPsalm 55:21 His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords. (All)

^NASPsalm 64:3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow, (“They aimed bitter speech as their arrow”)

^NASProverbs 5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, And smoother than oil is her speech; (Adulteress: “smoother than oil is her speech”)

^NASProverbs 16:21 The wise in heart will be called discerning, And sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness. (“sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness”)

^NASProverbs 17:7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool; Much less are lying lips to a prince. (“Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool”)

^NASProverbs 19:1 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool. (Better, poor man, integrity versus perverse in speech, fool.)

^NASProverbs 22:11 He who loves purity of heart And whose speech is gracious, the king is his friend. (“whose speech is gracious, the king is his friend”)

^NASEcclesiastes 5:6 Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands? (Solomon: “Do not let your speech cause you to sin.”)

^NASIsaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, Because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, To rebel against His glorious presence. (Isaiah re Jerusalem and Judah: “their speech and their actions are against the LORD”)

^NASIsaiah 29:4 Then you shall be brought low; From the earth you shall speak, And from the dust where you are prostrate, Your words shall come. Your voice shall also be like that of a spirit from the ground, And your speech shall whisper from the dust.

^NASIsaiah 33:19 You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands.

^NASEzekiel 3:5 "For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

⁶ nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;

^NASJohn 10:6 This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them. (Jesus: “Figure of speech”)

^NASJohn 16:29 His disciples said, "Lo, now You are speaking plainly, and are not using a figure of speech. (Disciples to Jesus: “You are speaking plainly” versus “a figure of speech”)

^NASRomans 16:18 For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. (“smooth and flattering speech they deceive”)

^NAS1 Corinthians 1:5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, (“enriched in Him, in all speech”)

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void. (“preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech”)

^NAS1 Corinthians 2:1 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. (Paul: “I did not come with superiority of speech”)

^NAS1 Corinthians 14:9 So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. (“unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear”)

^NAS2 Corinthians 3:12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, (Paul: “we use great boldness in our speech”)

^NAS2 Corinthians 10:10 For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive, and his speech contemptible." (Re Paul: “his speech contemptible”)

^NAS2 Corinthians 11:6 But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things. (Paul: “even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge”)

^NASColossians 3:8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. (‘Put aside’: “abusive speech from your mouth”)

^NASColossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned, as it were, with salt, so that you may know how you should respond to each person. (“speech always be with grace”)

^NAS1 Thessalonians 2:5 For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed-- God is witness— (“we never came with flattering speech”)

^NAS1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe. (Paul to Timothy: “speech” … “show yourself an example”)

^NASTitus 2:8 sound in speech which is beyond reproach, in order that the opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us. (Paul to Titus: “sound in speech”)

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