Proverbs 17:27

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

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

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.

But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

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.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

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,

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

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.”

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

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

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

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

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

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

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.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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.

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

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

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

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.