Keeping Quiet

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

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

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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;

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. — read the full passage →

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. — read the full passage →

neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock. — read the full passage →

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! — read the full passage →

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. — read the full passage →

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. — read the full passage →

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. — read the full passage →

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. — read the full passage →

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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

Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”

“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.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. — read the full passage →

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →