What Does the Bible Say About Listening To Each Other?

James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Ecclesiastes 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

11 Bible Verses about Listening To Each Other

James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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11 Bible Verses about Listening To Each Other

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James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes