Soft Words

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

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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

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

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.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, — read the full passage →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. — read the full passage →

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. — read the full passage →

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” — read the full passage →

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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

In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” — read the full passage →

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. — read the full passage →

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. — read the full passage →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. — read the full passage →

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, — read the full passage →

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. — read the full passage →

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” — read the full passage →

And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, — read the full passage →

For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” — read the full passage →

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. — read the full passage →

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. — read the full passage →

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly. — read the full passage →