'Sayings' in the Bible

With him I speak mouth to mouth,Even openly, and not in dark sayings,And he beholds the form of the Lord.Why then were you not afraidTo speak against My servant, against Moses?”

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of Godand has knowledge from the Most High,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

'Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

And Joshua saith unto all the people, 'Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.'

The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, Yea, she returneth her sayings to herself:

And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.

He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

And the queen of Sheba hath heard of the fame of Solomon, and cometh in to try Solomon with acute sayings, to Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels bearing spices and gold in abundance, and precious stone; and she cometh in unto Solomon, and speaketh with him all that hath been with her heart,

She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.

Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;your defenses are made of clay.

Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

Receive instruction from His mouth,and place His sayings in your heart.

The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings.

And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.

And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

Of the uprightness of my heart are my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.

To the Overseer, 'Concerning the Inheritances.' -- A Psalm of David. My sayings hear, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation.

Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.

Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

O God, hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth,

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.

How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

O Jehovah, all kings of earth confess Thee, When they have heard the sayings of Thy mouth.

Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.

The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

For learning what wisdom and discipline are;for understanding insightful sayings;

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

An abomination to Jehovah are thoughts of wickedness, And pure are sayings of pleasantness.

Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

He who spares his sayings knows knowledge, and a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

Haven’t I written for you thirty sayingsabout counsel and knowledge,

To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.

Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

These sayings also belong to the wise:It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah.

And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and write words of truth accurately.

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and those from masters of collections are like firmly embedded nails. The sayings are given by one Shepherd.

And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, 'Righteous?' yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings.

Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel (named Belteshazzar by the king): now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.

And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.

Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.

Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

And they remembered his sayings,

and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;