For all the scriptures which speak against usury, speak against it as a cruel or uncharitable thing.
To reprove sin, as Eli did his sons; or to speak againstit lightly as between jest and earnest, is the way to make the sinner think that it is a small or jesting matter.
If you say, that it is not godliness neither; why then do you distaste or speak against a godly life on this occasion?
Intimate, special friendship is a thing that hath been so much pleaded for by all sorts of men, and so much of the felicity of man's life hath been placed in it, that it beseemeth not me to speak against it.
King Harald was very proud, and his pride increased after he was established in the country; and it came so far that at last it was not good to speak against him, or to propose anything different from what he desired.
But it is the passion of grief as in its excess that I am now to speak against.
This easy, reasonable thing, which no man hath any thing of seeming sense and weight to speak against, would end all the ruinating differences among christians.
Before we come to more particular directions, it is needful that we discern the nature and evil of the sin which we speak against.
I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
Tis not the owning ones Dissent from another, that I speak against.
It is not the owning of one's dissent from an other, that I speak against.
There are many that keep their eye upon Christ, and that watch for an opportunity to speak against him, even through the sides of those that profess him.
But peradventure thou wilt say; those words that I own are not those that I speak against, but the other.
Hollyhock was vexed, because she had a great pride, and did not wish even insignificant people like Lady Jane Carden to speak against her.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speak against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
