1 Samuel 24:16

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”

God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.