When To Speak

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

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

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

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.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. — read the full passage →

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. — read the full passage →

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

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

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.