Judges 8:3

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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

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

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

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

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

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

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

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

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

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

I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.

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.”

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.”

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

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

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

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

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

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

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

“ ‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”

You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

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

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

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

So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

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.

When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

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

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

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

Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”

For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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