Proverbs 29:9

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

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

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

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

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

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

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

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

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

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

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

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.

The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

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

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

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 give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

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.

But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”