Keeping Quiet

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it <FI>is<Fi> .

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;

A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence. — read the full passage →

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or--I do speak from myself.

A city broken down without walls, <FI>Is<Fi> a man without restraint over his spirit!

The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body; — read the full passage →

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour. — read the full passage →

Apples of gold in imagery of silver, <FI>Is<Fi> the word spoken at its fit times.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.'

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; — read the full passage →

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; — read the full passage →

for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it--far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy.

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — read the full passage →

Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory <FI>is<Fi> to pass over transgression.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou--Thou hast been, To us--in generation and generation, — read the full passage →

I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because--at my right hand I am not moved.

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock, — read the full passage →

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! — read the full passage →

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about; — read the full passage →

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about; — read the full passage →

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body; — read the full passage →

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body; — read the full passage →

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

and, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, `Talitha cumi;' which is, being interpreted, `Damsel (I say to thee), arise.'

`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.

I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, `Behold Me, behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name.

Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips <FI>is<Fi> only to want.

Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked <FI>is<Fi> before me.'

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they <FI>are<Fi> vanity.

he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God--the life he hath not.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Because of this it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, — read the full passage →

and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off, — read the full passage →

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

The humble have seen--they rejoice, Ye who seek God--and your heart liveth.

`And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.