I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

A wicked person listens to malicious talk;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

Pilate therefore hearing them talk at this rate, order'd Jesus to be brought forth, and then sat down in a place of Mosaic work on his tribunal, in Syriac call'd Gabbatha.

When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;

When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool.

Now those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.

If any man speak, let him talk as though he spake the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth unto him. That God, in all things, may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world standeth. Amen.