But Saul grew more and more persuasive, and continued to confound the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man was the Messiah.

and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --

I say this in order that no one will deceive you with persuasive speech,

Therefore if there is any encouragement and comfort in Christ [as there certainly is in abundance], if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship [that we share] in the Spirit, if [there is] any [great depth of] affection and compassion,

And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, he reclining at table, a woman came having an alabaster box of perfumed oil of persuasive, costly, spikenard;. and having broken the alabaster box, she poured upon his head.

and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,