1 Kings 12:7
They said to him, "If you will be a servant today to this people, then you will serve them; and if you answer them and speak good words to them, they will always be your servants."
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir {anger}.
2 Samuel 15:3-6
Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case [is] good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king."
1 Kings 12:13
Then the king answered all the people harshly, [as] he had rejected the advice of the old men that they had offered.
2 Chronicles 10:6-7
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been {serving} before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "What word do you advise to answer this people?"
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness can undo great offenses.
Zechariah 1:13
[With] gracious and comforting words Yahweh answered the angel who was talking with me.
Mark 10:43-44
But it is not like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
Philippians 2:7-11
but emptied himself [by] taking the form of a slave, [by] becoming in the likeness of people. And being found in appearance like a man,