Proverbs 15:1

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

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

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

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

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

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.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

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

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

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

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

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

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.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

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.”

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

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.

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

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

The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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

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

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

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.

Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

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

The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,

Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

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

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

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