Job 4:2

New International Version

²“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?^(A)

Job 32:18-20

New International Version

¹⁸For I am full of words,
    and the spirit^(A) within me compels me;^(B)
¹⁹inside I am like bottled-up wine,
    like new wineskins ready to burst.^(C)
²⁰I must speak and find relief;
    I must open my lips and reply.^(D)

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Acts 4:20

New International Version

²⁰As for us, we cannot help speaking^(A) about what we have seen and heard.”^(B)

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Acts 4:20 in all English translations

Jeremiah 6:11

New International Version

¹¹But I am full of the wrath^(A) of the Lord,
and I cannot hold it in.^(B)

“Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the young men^(C) gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
and the old, those weighed down with years.^(D)

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Jeremiah 6:11 in all English translations

2 Corinthians 7:8-10

New International Version

⁸Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter,^(A) I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— ⁹yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. ¹⁰Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation^(B) and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

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2 Corinthians 2:4-6

New International Version

⁴For I wrote you^(A) out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

Forgiveness for the Offender

⁵If anyone has caused grief,^(B) he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. ⁶The punishment^(C) inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.

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Jeremiah 20:9

New International Version

⁹But if I say, “I will not mention his word
    or speak anymore in his name,”^(A)
his word is in my heart like a fire,^(B)
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;^(C)
    indeed, I cannot.