Proverbs 10:19

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

“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.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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.

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

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

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

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

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

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

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

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.

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

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

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

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

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

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.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

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

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

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

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.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?