James 1:19

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Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

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  • Prov 17:27 : 27 The truly wise person restrains his words, and the one who stays calm is discerning.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.
  • Prov 21:23 : 23 The one who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his life from troubles.
  • Prov 13:3 : 3 The one who guards his words guards his life; whoever is talkative will come to ruin.
  • Prov 18:13 : 13 The one who gives an answer before he listens– that is his folly and his shame.
  • Prov 14:29 : 29 Someone with great understanding is slow to anger, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
  • Prov 16:32 : 32 Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
  • Eccl 5:1-3 : 1 Rash Vows(4:17) Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong. 2 (5:1) Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth! Therefore, let your words be few. 3 Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
  • Eccl 7:8-9 : 8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning; likewise, patience is better than pride. 9 Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.
  • Prov 19:11 : 11 A person’s wisdom has made him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
  • Prov 14:17 : 17 A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.
  • Prov 25:28 : 28 Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.
  • Col 3:15 : 15 Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart(for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
  • Neh 9:17 : 17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.
  • Acts 10:33 : 33 Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.
  • Acts 13:42-44 : 42 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath. 43 When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God. 44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.
  • Mark 2:2 : 2 So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.
  • Mark 12:37 : 37 If David himself calls him‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.
  • Luke 19:48 : 48 but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 The Fellowship of the Early Believers They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
  • Prov 8:32-35 : 32 “So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it. 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway. 35 For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the LORD.
  • Neh 8:2-3 : 2 So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard.(This happened on the first day of the seventh month.) 3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.
  • Neh 8:18 : 18 Ezra read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly as was required.
  • Neh 9:3 : 3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God.
  • Prov 19:19 : 19 A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.
  • Jas 3:1-2 : 1 The Power of the Tongue Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly. 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.
  • 1 John 2:21 : 21 I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
  • Neh 8:12-14 : 12 So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food with others and to enjoy tremendous joy, for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them. 13 On the second day of the month the family leaders met with Ezra the scribe, together with all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to consider the words of the law. 14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,
  • Luke 15:1 : 1 The Parable of the Lost Sheep and Coin Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.
  • Acts 13:48 : 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.
  • Gal 5:20-21 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

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    18By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

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    1The Power of the Tongue Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.

    2For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

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    9With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

    10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

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    13True Wisdom Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

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    17A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.

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    31You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice.

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    19When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.

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    11A person’s wisdom has made him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

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    19My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

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    22An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

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    11Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

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    26If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

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    20You have seen someone who is hasty in his words– there is more hope for a fool than for him.

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    27The truly wise person restrains his words, and the one who stays calm is discerning.

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    8But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

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    6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.