Bible Verses about 'Slow to speak'
- You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.
- The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. - Speak out for those who cannot speak,
for the rights of all the destitute. - Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly. - One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city. - Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
- The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet. - Rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord, your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
and relents from punishing. - If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- Speak out, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy. - Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be fulfilled, says the Lord God.
- The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
- Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
- I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter.
- Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.
- Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,
and speak the truth from their heart;
who do not slander with their tongue,
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. - Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly.
- For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down,
and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;
people deck it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
nor is it in them to do good. - But as for you, teach what is consistent with sound doctrine.
- Come to a sober and right mind, and sin no more; for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.
- God is not a human being, that he should lie,
or a mortal, that he should change his mind.
Has he promised, and will he not do it?
Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? - I will bless the Lord at all times;
his praise shall continually be in my mouth. - When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
- Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives;
those who open wide their lips come to ruin. - The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse. - But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
- The heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge. - Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands and call on your name. - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- For
“Those who desire life
and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.” - For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
- Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
- Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
- Pay to all what is due them—taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
- If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
- For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.
- For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance.
- You may say to yourself, “How can we recognize a word that the Lord has not spoken?” If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it.
- Just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
- The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free. - It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to put confidence in mortals. - Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
- Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
- Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
- How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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