Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Haste » Not being hasty
Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame. Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and disclose not a secret to another: Lest he that hears it put you to shame, and the evil report turns not away.
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep yourself pure.
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
Prayer » Brevity in prayer examples of brief prayers » Brevity encouraged
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
Prayer » Should be offered up » With deliberation
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
Prayer » Profuse, to be avoided
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
Rashness » Warnings against
The thoughts of the diligent lead only to plenty; but of everyone that is hasty, only to want.
See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope for a fool than for him.
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; and he that hastens with his feet sins.
Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Speech/communication » How not to speak
You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.