Proverbs 25:23
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
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but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
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.
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
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 if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.
“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.