Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

Withhold himself from speaking

Bible References

Wilt thou

2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

Withhold himself from speaking

Job 32:18
For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh. I am weary with holding in. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
Acts 4:20
for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."