Proverbs 25:15

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

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.

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

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.

Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

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.

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.”

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

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

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

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’ ” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

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.

But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.

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.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.

Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

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

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

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.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?

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

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

the greyhound; the male goat; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

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

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

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

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

“He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” The angel departed from her.

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

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

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

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,