'Speech' in the Bible
After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."
They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.