'Tone' in the Bible

Then their eyes were opened. And assuming a stern tone Jesus said to them, "Be careful to let no one know."

And all were amazed and awe-struck, so they began to ask one another, "What does this mean? Here is a new sort of teaching--and a tone of authority! And even to foul spirits he issues orders and they obey him!"

But the righteousness which is based on faith speaks in a different tone. "Say not in your heart," it declares, "'Who shall ascend to Heaven?'" --that is, to bring Christ down;

Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?

Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

He must speak in a gentle tone when correcting the errors of opponents, in the hope that God will at last give them repentance, for them to come to a full knowledge of the truth

and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends--a conviction of things which point towards salvation.