7 Bible Verses about Eloquence

Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

But there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called that of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake.

I know not that I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; but not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

For if I am unskilful in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly manifest to you in all things.

which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay or resist.

For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error.