Public Speaking

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; — read the full passage →

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

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, — read the full passage →

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.

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.