Speak Plainly

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

• Self-delusion

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

• Converts
• Prudence

And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. read more And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. show less

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

• Compassionate
• Heart
• River

• Peter
• Presumption

And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

• Moses
• Communion

With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?