Temper

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

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

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

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

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

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.

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

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see--that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly <FI>places<Fi> , through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, — read the full passage →

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him. — read the full passage →

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Now, why dost thou shout aloud? A king--is there none in thee? Hath thy counsellor perished, That taken hold of thee hath pain as a travailing woman?

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of? — read the full passage →

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing. — read the full passage →

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth. — read the full passage →

Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back. — read the full passage →

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, — read the full passage →

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger. — read the full passage →

The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down. — read the full passage →

Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Absalom prepareth for himself a chariot, and horses, and fifty men are running before him; — read the full passage →

and Jonathan son of Saul delighted exceedingly in David, and Jonathan declareth to David, saying, `Saul my father is seeking to put thee to death, and, now, take heed, I pray thee, in the morning, and thou hast abode in a secret place, and been hidden, — read the full passage →

And it hath come to pass, in the spirit of <FI>sadness from<Fi> God being on Saul, that David hath taken the harp, and played with his hand, and Saul hath refreshment and gladness, and the spirit of sadness hath turned aside from off him.

And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name <FI>is<Fi> Hagar; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,