Proverbs 15:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

A soft answere putteth away wrath: but grieuous wordes stirre vp anger.

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  • Prov 25:15 : 15 A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.
  • Prov 29:22 : 22 An angrie man stirreth vp strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 An angrie man stirreth vp strife: but hee that is slowe to wrath, appeaseth strife.
  • 1 Sam 25:21-33 : 21 And Dauid said, In deede I haue kept all in vaine that this fellow had in the wildernesse, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained vnto him: for he hath requited me euill for good. 22 So and more also doe God vnto the enemies of Dauid: for surely I will not leaue of all that he hath, by the dawning of the day, any that pisseth against the wall. 23 And when Abigail sawe Dauid, she hasted and lighted off her asse, and fell before Dauid on her face, and bowed her selfe to the ground, 24 And fel at his feete, and sayd, Oh, my lord, I haue committed the iniquitie, and I pray thee, let thine handmayde speake to thee, and heare thou the wordes of thine handmayde. 25 Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest. 26 Now therefore my lord, as the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth (the Lorde, I say, that hath withholden thee from coming to shedde blood, & that thine hand should not saue thee) so now thine enemies shall be as Nabal, and they that intend to doe my lord euill. 27 And now, this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought vnto my lorde, let it be giuen vnto the yong men, that followe my lord. 28 I pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of thine handmaide: for the Lorde will make my lorde a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battels of the Lorde, and none euill hath bene found in thee in all thy life. 29 Yet a man hath risen vp to persecute thee, and to seeke thy soule, but the soule of my lorde shall be bounde in the bundel of life with the Lord thy God: & the soule of thine enemies shal God cast out, as out of the middle of a sling. 30 And when the Lorde shall haue done to my lord al the good that he hath promised thee, and shall haue made thee ruler ouer Israel, 31 Then shall it be no griefe vnto thee, nor offence of minde vnto my lord, that he hath not shed blood causelesse, nor that my lorde hath not preserued him selfe: and when the Lorde shall haue dealt well with my lorde, remember thine handmaide. 32 Then Dauid said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meete me. 33 And blessed be thy counsel, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day fro coming to shed blood, and that mine hand hath not saued me.
  • 1 Kgs 12:13-16 : 13 And the king answered the people sharpely, and left the old mens counsell that they gaue him, 14 And spake to them after the counsell of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke grieuous, and I will make your yoke more grieuous: my father hath chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges. 15 And the King hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinance of the Lorde, that he might perfourme his saying, which the Lorde had spoken by Ahiiah the Shilonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat. 16 So when all Israel sawe that the King regarded them not, the people answered the King thus, saying, What portion haue we in Dauid? we haue none inheritance in the sonne of Ishai. To your tents, O Israel: nowe see to thine owne house, Dauid. So Israel departed vnto their tents.
  • Prov 10:12 : 12 Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.
  • Judg 8:1-3 : 1 Then the men of Ephraim sayde vnto him, Why hast thou serued vs thus that thou calledst vs not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? and they chode with him sharply. 2 To whom he said, What haue I now done in comparison of you? is not the gleaning of grapes of Ephraim better, then the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God hath deliuered into your handes the princes of Midian, Oreb & Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? & when he had thus spoken, then their spirits abated toward him.
  • Prov 28:25 : 25 He that is of a proude heart, stirreth vp strife: but he that trusteth in the Lorde, shall be fatte.
  • Judg 12:3-6 : 3 So when I sawe that ye deliuered me not, I put my life in mine hands, and went vpon the children of Ammon: so the Lord deliuered them into mine handes. Wherefore then are ye come vpon me nowe to fight against me? 4 Then Iphtah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are runnagates of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 Also the Gileadites tooke the passages of Iorden before the Ephraimites, and when the Ephraimites that were escaped, saide, Let me passe, then the men of Gilead said vnto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay, 6 Then said they vnto him, Say nowe Shibboleth: and he said, Sibboleth: for he could not so pronounce: then they tooke him, and slewe him at the passages of Iorden: & there fel at that time of the Ephraimites two & fourtie thousand.
  • 1 Sam 25:10-13 : 10 Then Nabal answered Dauids seruantes, & sayd, Who is Dauid? And who is the sonne of Ishai? There be many seruantes nowe a dayes, that breake away euery man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I haue killed for my sherers, and giue it vnto men, whom I know not whence they be? 12 So Dauids seruants turned their way, and went againe, and came, and tolde him all those things. 13 And Dauid said vnto his men, Girde euery man his sword about him. And they girded euery man his sworde: Dauid also girded his sworde; about foure hundreth men went vp after Dauid, and two hundreth abode by the cariage.

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    18 An angrie man stirreth vp strife: but hee that is slowe to wrath, appeaseth strife.

  • Prov 15:2
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  • Prov 14:29
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  • Prov 25:15
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    15 A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.

  • Prov 21:14
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    14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a gift in the bosome great wrath.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22 An angrie man stirreth vp strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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  • Prov 14:16-17
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    16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from euill: but a foole rageth, and is carelesse.

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    4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

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    3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

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    5 Answere a foole according to his foolishnes, least he be wise in his owne conceite.

  • Ps 37:8
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    8 Cease from anger, and leaue off wrath: fret not thy selfe also to doe euill.

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  • Eccl 10:4
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    4 If the spirite of him that ruleth, rise vp against thee, leaue not thy place: for gentlenes pacifieth great sinnes.

  • Prov 17:27
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    23 A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due seaso?

  • Prov 12:16
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    16 A foole in a day shall be knowen by his anger: but he that couereth shame, is wise.

  • Prov 19:11
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    11 The discretion of man deferreth his anger: and his glory is to passe by an offence.

  • Prov 29:11
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    8 Scornefull men bring a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.

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  • Prov 21:23
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    23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.

  • Prov 10:12-13
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    12 Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.

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    10 Cast out the scorner, and strife shal go out: so contention and reproche shall cease.

  • Job 6:25
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  • Eph 4:26
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    26 Bee angrie, but sinne not: let not the sunne goe downe vpon your wrath,

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  • Prov 20:2-3
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  • Eccl 10:12
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    12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

  • Prov 22:24
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    24 Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,

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    4 Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?