James 1:20

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

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

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

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

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

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

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

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

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

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

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

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.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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

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

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

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;

“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

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

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.