119 verses contain “speech” (in the KJV: 78, in the BSB: 61) — showing 101–119
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Oftentimes also fair speech of those, that are put in trust to manage their friends’ affairs, hath caused many that are in authority to be partakers of innocent blood, and hath enwrapped them in remediless calamities:
For by speech wisdom shall be known: and learning by the word of the tongue.
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.
There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.
Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;
And with other such speeches exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their hearts.
For he by the hand of God was cast down, and lay speechless without all hope of life.
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.
For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.