1 John 2:21

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;