James 1:19

Believers should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. Receptive humility, not hasty reaction, marks the godly life.

Cross-references · 40

• Prov 17:27He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
• Prov 21:23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
• Prov 14:29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
• Prov 10:19In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
• Prov 18:13He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
• Prov 13:3He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Prov 16:32One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
• Eccl 7:8–9Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Prov 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
• Eccl 5:1–3Guard 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.
• Col 3:8but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Prov 15:2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
• Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
• Prov 19:11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
• Prov 14:17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
• Prov 25:28Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
• Prov 8:32–35“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
• Jas 1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
• Gal 5:20–21idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
• 1 Th 2:13For 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.
• Neh 9:17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• Jas 3:1–2Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
• Neh 8:2–3Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
• Prov 19:19A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
• Neh 8:12–14All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
• Luke 19:48They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
• Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
• Mark 2:2Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
• Acts 10:33Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
• 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
• Neh 9:3They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
• Acts 2:42They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
• Acts 13:42–44So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
• Mark 12:37Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.

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