James 1:19

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Summary

James 1:19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Let

Slow to speak

James 1:26

James 3:1

Slow to wrath

General references

Mark 6:33

Bible References

Let

and such a crowd gathered that after a while there was no room even around the door, and he was telling them his message.

David himself calls him lord, and how can he be his son?" The mass of the people liked to hear him.

All the tax-collectors and irreligious people were crowding up to hear him.

but they could not find any way to do it, for all the people hung upon his words.

And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.

So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

As they were going out, the people begged to have all this said to them again on the following Sabbath,

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too??ecause when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

Slow to speak

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Slow to wrath

But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit,

Be angry, but do not sin. The sun must not go down upon your anger;

But now you too must put them all aside??nger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk??hese must be banished from your lips.

General references

And many people saw them start and knew of it, and hurried around by land from all the neighboring towns, and got ahead of them.