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  1    Pent,  Gen   11:    9    |       there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. It was
  2    Pent,  Gen   11:   32(10)|         followed in St. Stephen's speech: Abraham left Haran "after
  3    Pent,  Gen   44:   19(4) |   repeated expressions in Judah's speech show the formal court style
  4    Pent,  Exo    3:    8(4) |       have come down: a figure of speech signifying an extraordinary
  5    Pent,  Exo    4:   10    |         servant; but I am slow of speech and tongue." ~
  6    Pent,  Exo    4:   11    |           him, "Who gives one man speech and makes another deaf and
  7    Pent,  Deu   10:   16(2) |           30) do not open well in speech. ~
  8    Pent,  Jos  Int          |        Jordan (Jos 22), a warning speech by Joshua (Jos 23), and
  9     His,  Jdt    9:   13    |               13 ~Let my guileful speech bring wound and wale on
 10     His,  Jdt   11:    9    |               9 ~"As for Achior's speech in your council, we have
 11     His,  Est    E:    5    |          5 ~"Often, too, the fair speech of friends entrusted with
 12     His, 1Mac    4:   19    |          Judas was finishing this speech, a detachment appeared,
 13     His, 2Mac   15:   12    |         manners, distinguished in speech, and trained from childhood
 14   WisdB,  Job  Int          |         VII.           The Lord's Speech (Job 38:1-42:6) ~                    
 15   WisdB,  Job   13:   17    |            Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a
 16   WisdB,  Job   15:    3    |             3 ~Should he argue in speech which does not avail, and
 17   WisdB,  Job   15:   11    |           not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you? ~
 18   WisdB,  Job   19:   16    |           no answer, though in my speech I plead with him. ~
 19   WisdB,  Job   26:    1(1) |           reply to Bildad's short speech. Some, however, would make
 20   WisdB,  Job   27:    2(1) |           Job's reply to Zophar's speech of Job 27:12-20(13-21).
 21   WisdB,  Job   27:   13(2) |         be read as Zophar's third speech. The asterisks are present
 22   WisdB,  Psa    5:   10(2) |          10] Their throats: their speech brings harm to their hearers (
 23   WisdB,  Psa   19:    1(1) |           The themes of light and speech unify the poem. ~
 24   WisdB,  Psa   35:   20    |       land they fashion deceitful speech. ~
 25   WisdB,  Psa   39:    3    |      wicked, I refrained from any speech. But my sorrow increased; ~
 26   WisdB,  Psa   39:    4    |       blazed up, and I broke into speech: ~
 27   WisdB,  Psa   45:    3    |        most handsome of men; fair speech has graced your lips, for
 28   WisdB,  Psa   52:    5    |           lies rather than honest speech. Selah ~
 29   WisdB,  Psa   55:   22    |       Softer than butter is their speech, but war is in their hearts.
 30   WisdB,  Psa   73:    9(2) | half-divine giants, the monstrous speech of the wicked is likened
 31   WisdB,  Pro    2:   12    |         men, from men of perverse speech, ~
 32   WisdB,  Pro    4:   24    |         dishonest talk, deceitful speech put far from you. ~
 33   WisdB,  Pro   12:    6    |          a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright saves them. ~
 34   WisdB,  Pro   16:   21    |         discernment, yet pleasing speech increases his persuasiveness. ~
 35   WisdB,  Pro   17:   27    |            and he who is chary of speech is a man of intelligence. ~
 36   WisdB,  Pro   22:   11    |         heart; the man of winning speech has the king for his friend. ~
 37   WisdB,  Ecc    1:    8    |                          8 ~4 All speech is labored; there is nothing
 38   WisdB,  Ecc    1:    8(4) |                            8] All speech . . . man can say: or "All
 39   WisdB,  Ecc    7:    8    |           8 ~Better is the end of speech than its beginning; better
 40   WisdB, Wisd    1:   11(4) |                      11] Calumny: speech against God and his providence
 41   WisdB, Wisd   10:   21    |          the dumb, and gave ready speech to infants. ~ ~ ~
 42   WisdB,  Sir  For          |     lovers of wisdom, be able, in speech and in writing, to help
 43   WisdB,  Sir    4:   20(3) |          compromise of liberty in speech and action (Sirach 4:22-
 44   WisdB,  Sir    4:   24    |             24 ~For it is through speech that wisdom becomes known,
 45   WisdB,  Sir    4:   29    |          29 ~Be not surly in your speech, nor lazy and slack in your
 46   WisdB,  Sir    5:   12(3) |      tongue requires constancy in speech (Sirach 5:12), prudence (
 47   WisdB,  Sir    7:   14(3) |                prayer: brevity of speech in dealings with superiors
 48   WisdB,  Sir    8:    3    |         not with a man of railing speech, heap no wood upon his fire. ~
 49   WisdB,  Sir    9:   18    |        city is the man of railing speech, and he who talks rashly
 50   WisdB,  Sir   11:    8    |          one in the middle of his speech. ~
 51   WisdB,  Sir   19:    5(1) |        forbidding intemperance in speech through calumny, rash judgment,
 52   WisdB,  Sir   20:    1(1) |    indicates the proper times for speech and silence, that is, the
 53   WisdB,  Sir   20:   17(5) |              17-25] The ill-timed speech of the wicked, the unruly
 54   WisdB,  Sir   20:   26(6) |          the sage through prudent speech gains in honor and esteem
 55   WisdB,  Sir   26:   14    |          the LORD is her governed speech, and her firm virtue is
 56   WisdB,  Sir   26:   20(6) |          27:3), and perversity of speech in business (Sirach 26:4-
 57   WisdB,  Sir   27:    6    |          had; so too does a man's speech disclose the bent of his
 58   WisdB,  Sir   31:   12(4) |      Sirach 32:3-6), is modest in speech (Sirach 32:7, 8, 10), is
 59   WisdB,  Sir   36:   18(2) |         18-21). Beauty and kindly speech make a woman desirable as
 60   WisdB,  Sir   36:   23    |          23 ~And if, besides, her speech is kindly, his lot is beyond
 61  ProphB,  Isa    3:    8    |       Judah is falling; for their speech and their deeds are before
 62  ProphB,  Isa   33:   19    |       more, the people of obscure speech, stammering in a language
 63  ProphB,  Isa   58:    9    |          accusation and malicious speech; ~
 64  ProphB,  Jer    5:   15    |      language you know not, whose speech you cannot understand. ~
 65  ProphB,  Jer    7:   28    |     itself is banished from their speech. ~
 66  ProphB,  Bar    4:   15    |      nation ruthless and of alien speech, That has neither reverence
 67  ProphB,  Bar    6:   40    |           deaf mute, incapable of speech, they bring forward Bel
 68  ProphB,  Eze    3:    5    |           a people with difficult speech and barbarous language am
 69  ProphB,  Eze    3:    6    |           peoples (with difficult speech and barbarous language)
 70   NTPre                     |   overgrowth and mixed figures of speech in the letters of Peter,
 71   REPre                     |           recognized as dignified speech, on the level of formal
 72   REPre                     |         in common use in everyday speech. The level of language consciously
 73    Gosp,  Mat    5:   37(24)|         No': literally, "let your speech be 'Yes, yes,' 'No, no.' "
 74    Gosp,  Mat   13:    1(1) |           Jesus uses this type of speech (Matthew 10-15), declares
 75    Gosp,  Mat   13:   11(4) |           a parable is figurative speech that demands reflection
 76    Gosp,  Mat   19:    1(1) |           This long and important speech raises a problem for the
 77    Gosp,  Mat   19:    1(1) |          is to be noted that this speech lacks the customary concluding
 78    Gosp,  Mat   22:   15    |          they might entrap him in speech. ~
 79    Gosp,  Mat   22:   15(9) |      Matthew 22:16. Entrap him in speech: the question that they
 80    Gosp,  Mat   23:    1(1) |   Pharisees is well founded, this speech reflects an opposition that
 81    Gosp,  Mat   23:    1(1) |     complaint often made that the speech ignores the positive qualities
 82    Gosp,  Mat   23:    1(1) |         the invective. Nor is the speech purely anti-Pharisaic. The
 83    Gosp,  Mat   23:    2(2) |    Matthew 14:1-12), and, in this speech, denounces the Pharisees
 84    Gosp,  Mat   23:    2(2) |     traditional material into the speech in accordance with his view
 85    Gosp,  Mat   23:   13(7) |         them, is the heart of the speech. The phrase woe to occurs
 86    Gosp,  Mat   23:   13(7) |          difference between their speech and action Matthew 23:3
 87    Gosp,  Mat   26:   73    |        are one of them; even your speech gives you away." ~
 88    Gosp,  Mat   26:   73(39)|                          73] Your speech . . . away: Matthew explicates
 89    Gosp,  Mar    7:   32    |          him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him
 90    Gosp,  Mar    7:   35    |           s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed,
 91    Gosp,  Mar   12:   13    |         him to ensnare him in his speech. ~
 92    Gosp,  Luk    1:   59(18)|         recovery from his loss of speech should be understood as
 93    Gosp,  Luk    7:    1(2) |         also Acts 10:34-35 in the speech of Peter: "God shows no
 94    Gosp,  Luk   20:   20    |           who were to trap him in speech, in order to hand him over
 95    Gosp,  Joh   10:    6    |         Jesus used this figure of speech, 4 they did not realize
 96    Gosp,  Joh   10:    6(4) |                      6] Figure of speech: John uses a different word
 97    Gosp,  Joh   10:    6(4) |   different word for illustrative speech than the "parable" of the
 98    Gosp,  Joh   16:   25    |       told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when
 99    Gosp,  Joh   16:   29    |          and not in any figure of speech. ~
100    Gosp,  Act    2:    1(1) |     introduction (Acts 2:1-13), a speech ascribed to Peter declaring
101    Gosp,  Act    6:    1(1) |          the community whose long speech and martyrdom will be recounted
102    Gosp,  Act    7:    2(1) |                   2-53] Stephen's speech represents Luke's description
103    Gosp,  Act    7:    2(1) |           become prominent in the speech: (Acts 7:1) Israel's reaction
104    Gosp,  Act    9:   20(6) |   citation of Psalm 2:7 in Paul's speech at Antioch in Pisidia (Acts
105    Gosp,  Act   10:   34(12)|                    34-43] Peter's speech to the household of Cornelius
106    Gosp,  Act   14:   15(4) |          15-17] This is the first speech of Paul to Gentiles recorded
107    Gosp,  Act   17:   22(6) |         he preaches his climactic speech to Gentiles in the cultural
108    Gosp,  Act   17:   22(6) |         of the ancient world. The speech is more theological than
109    Gosp,  Act   17:   22(6) |         raised from the dead. The speech reflects sympathy with pagan
110    Gosp,  Act   22:    1(1) |          21] Paul's first defense speech is presented to the Jerusalem
111    Gosp,  Act   26:    2(1) |          23] Paul's final defense speech in Acts is now made before
112    Gosp,  Act   26:    2(1) |            see Acts 9:15). In the speech Paul presents himself as
113    Gosp,  Act   26:    2(1) |        third time in Acts in this speech (see the note on Acts 9:
114   NTLet,  Rom    1:   14(9) |          2), meaning people whose speech was foreign. Roman citizens
115   NTLet,  Rom   16:   18    |        and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts
116   NTLet, 1Cor    1:   17(8) |         well as an external word, speech, or message. So by his expression
117   NTLet, 1Cor   14:    2(2) |   communication: tongues, private speech toward God in inarticulate
118   NTLet, 1Cor   14:    6(4) |           and from ordinary human speech (1 Cor 14:10-11); it is
119   NTLet, 1Cor   14:    9    |         do not utter intelligible speech, how will anyone know what
120   NTLet, 2Cor    6:    7    |                    7 ~in truthful speech, in the power of God; with
121   NTLet, 2Cor   10:   10    |         presence is weak, and his speech contemptible." ~
122   NTLet,  Eph    3:   12    |          whom we have boldness of speech and confidence of access
123   NTLet,  Eph    6:   19    |         19 ~and also for me, that speech may be given me to open
124   NTLet,  Col    4:    6    |                       6 ~Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned
125   NTLet, 1The    2:    5    |       ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a
126   NTLet, 1Tim    4:   12    |         for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and
127   NTLet,  Tit    2:    8    |                      8 ~and sound speech that cannot be criticized,
128   NTLet,  Phl    0:    8(8) |    connotes the full franchise of speech, as the right of a citizen
129   CathL,  Jam    3:    2    |     anyone does not fall short in speech, he is a perfect man, able
130   CathL,  Jam    3:   13(2) |          who is in control of his speech. The qualities of the wise
131   CathL, 1Joh    3:   18    |        let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. ~