1 Samuel 25:13

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

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

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

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

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

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

and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

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

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

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

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.

David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

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

For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

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

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

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

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

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”