Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
“And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.
And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law. And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,
So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.
And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.
As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
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