Genesis 16:6

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

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

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

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

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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

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

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

Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.

Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”

God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”

They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

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

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

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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

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

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

then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from Yahweh?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”

Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today.”

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.