'Language' in the Bible

But let your language be, 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no.' Anything in excess of this comes from the Evil one.

"Such language is impious," said some of the Scribes among themselves.

He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. "The sower goes out," He said, "to sow.

(And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?"

I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.

All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,

in fulfilment of the saying of the Prophet, "I will open my mouth in figurative language, I will utter things kept hidden since the creation of all things."

"Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter.

Again Jesus spoke to them in figurative language.

"When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel)

Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety.

So He called them to Him, and using figurative language He appealed to them, saying, "How is it possible for Satan to expel Satan?

Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,

When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.

"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;

But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.

Then He began to speak to them in figurative language. "There was once a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a pit for the wine-tank, and built a strong lodge. Then he let the place to vine-dressers and went abroad.

And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority.

All were astonished and awe-struck; and they asked one another, "What sort of language is this? For with authority and real power He gives orders to the foul spirits and they come out."

He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one," He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one. Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch from the new would not match the old.

He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch?

So in figurative language He asked them,

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"

"All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.

"Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech!

This fact became widely known to the people of Jerusalem, so that the place received the name, in their language, of Achel-damach, which means 'The Field of Blood.')

So when this noise was heard, they came crowding together, and were amazed because everyone heard his own language spoken.

How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them?

Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own language about the wonderful things which God has done."

So he sprang up and began to walk about. Then the crowds, seeing what Paul had done, rent the air with their shouts in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have assumed human form and have come down to us."

And this is in harmony with the language of the Prophets, which says:

But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles."

But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous--I speak in our everyday language-- when He inflicts punishment?

For the words are the language of promise and run thus, "About this time next year I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home;

Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us, but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do, spiritual words to spiritual truths.

But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.

nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.

There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language.

If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue.

As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No."

I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is 'courageous' --I speak in mere folly--I also am courageous.

Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice.

Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.

For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness;

and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

He never sinned, and no deceitful language was ever heard from His mouth.

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

And now they sing a new song. "It is fitting," they say, "that Thou shouldst be the One to take the book And break its seals; Because Thou hast been offered in sacrifice, And hast purchased for God with Thine own blood Some out of every tribe and language and people and nation,

And permission was given him to make war upon God's people and conquer them; and power was given him over every tribe, people, language and nation.

And I saw another angel flying across the sky, carrying the Good News of the Ages to tell to every nation, tribe, language and people, among those who live on the earth.