Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Haste » Not being hasty
Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame. Debate your cause with your neighbor; and do not uncover a secret to another, lest he who hears it put you to shame, and your evil report turn not away.
Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Do not lay hands quickly on anyone, neither be partaker of the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Prayer » Brevity in prayer examples of brief prayers » Brevity encouraged
But when you pray, do not babble vain words, as the nations. For they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Prayer » Should be offered up » With deliberation
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Prayer » Profuse, to be avoided
But when you pray, do not babble vain words, as the nations. For they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard.
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Rashness » Warnings against
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.
Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Also without knowledge the soul is not good, and he who hurries with his feet sins.
Since 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 as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.
Talk no more so very proudly. Remove arrogance out of your mouth, for Jehovah 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 do not know that they are doing evil. Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.