4 Bible Verses about Tact

And the men of Ephraim will say to him, Why didst thou this word to us, that thou calledst not to us when thou wentest to war against Midian? and they will contend with him with strength. And he will say to them, What now did I according to you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim good above the vintage of Abi-Ezer? Into your hand God gave the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do according to you? Then was their spirit relaxed from over him in his speaking this word.

And the men of Ephraim will say to him, Why didst thou this word to us, that thou calledst not to us when thou wentest to war against Midian? and they will contend with him with strength. And he will say to them, What now did I according to you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim good above the vintage of Abi-Ezer? Into your hand God gave the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do according to you? Then was their spirit relaxed from over him in his speaking this word.

For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more. And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law; To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless, read more.
I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some.

And he will take a pair of oxen and will cut them in pieces, and will send in all the bound of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, Whoever will not come forth after Saul and after Samuel, thus shall be done to his oxen. And the fear of Jehovah will fall upon the people, and they will come forth as one man.

And the sons of Belial said, What shall this save us? And they will despise him and will not bring him a gift; and he will be as keeping silence.

And the people will say to Samuel, Who said, Shall Saul reign over us? Ye shall give up the men and we will put them to death. And Saul will say, A man shall not die in this day, for this day Jehovah made salvation in Israel. And Samuel will say to the people, Go, and we will go to Gilgal, and we will renew there the kingdom. read more.
And all the people will go to Gil-gal; and will sacrifice there sacrifices of peace before Jehovah: and Saul will rejoice there and all the men of Israel, even greatly.

For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more. And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law; To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless, read more.
I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God given in the churches of Macedonia; That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity. For according to power, I testify, and above power chosen voluntarily; read more.
Praying us with much entreaty that we receive the grace and participation of the service for saints. And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God. So that we besought Titus, that as he began before, so also he would complete to us this grace also. But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace. I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love.

For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you: For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more. And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared: read more.
Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting. Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.

And David will say to the chiefs of the Levites to cause their brethren to stand singing with every instrument of song, lyres and harps, and cymbals, causing to hear to lift up with the voice for joy. And the Levites wilt set up He-man son of Joel; and from his brethren, Asaph son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan son of Kushaiah; And with them their brethren being second, Zechariah the son, and Jahaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah. and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, Jeiel, gate-keepers. read more.
And those singing, Heman, Asaph and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to cause to hear; And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with lyres upon Alemoth; And Mattithiah and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps upon the Sheminith to shine. And Chenaniah chief of the, in lifting up, admonished in the lifting up, for he discerning. Levites And Berechiah and Elkanah gate-keepers to the ark And Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat, and Nathaniel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, trumpeting with trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah, gate-keepers to the ark.

And a wise woman will call out of the city, Hear ye, hear ye; say now to Joab, Come near hither and I will speak to you. And he will draw near to her, and the woman will say, Art thou Joab? and he will say, I. And she will say to him, Hear the words of thy servant And he will say, I hear. And she will say, saying, They will speak the word in the beginning, saying, They will ask an asking in Abel: and thus they finished. read more.
I peaceful of the faithful of Israel: thou seeking to kill a city and a mother in Israel: wherefore wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah? And Joab will say, Far be it, far be it to me, if I shall swallow up and if I shall destroy. Not thus the word; for a man from mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri, his name, lifted up his hand against the king, against David: ye shall give him only, and I will go from the city. And the woman will say to Joab, Behold, his head being cast to thee behind the wall. And the woman will go to all the people in her wisdom: and they will cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and cast to Joab. And he will strike upon the trumpet, and they will disperse from the city, a man to his tent. And Joab turned back to Jerusalem to the king.

And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses. And she will say to her boys, Pass over before me; behold me coming after you. And she announced not to her husband Nabal. And it was she rode upon the ass, and came down in the hiding of the mountain, and behold, David and his men coming down to meet her; and she will meet them. read more.
(And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good. Thus will God do the enemies of David and thus will he add if I shall leave from all which is to him till the light of the morning, him pissing against the wall.) And Abigail will see David, and will hasten, and will come down from the ass, and fall before David upon her face, and will worship him to the earth. And she will fall at his feet and say, In me, my lord, me the iniquity; and thy servant now will speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy servant. Now my lord shall not set his heart to this man of Belial upon Nebel: for as his name, so is he: Nabal his name, and folly with him: and I thy servant saw not the boys of my lord which thou sentest And now my lord, Jehovah lives and thy soul lives, for Jehovah withheld thee from coming by blood, and saving thy hand to thyself, and now thine enemies shall be as Nabal, they seeking out evil to my lord. And now this blessing which thy servant brought to my give it to the boys going at the feet of my lord. Lift up now, to the trespass of thy servant: for making, Jehovah will make to my lord a faithful house; for Jehovah fought the battles of my lord, and evil shall not be found in thee thy days. And a man will rise to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: and the soul of my lord was bound up in the bundle of lives with Jehovah thy God; and the soul of thine enemies he will sling out in the midst of the hand of the sling. And it was that Jehovah will do to my lord according to all the good which he spake concerning thee, and he commanded thee for leader over Israel; And this shall not be to thee for an obstacle and for a stumbling-block of heart to my lord, and to pour out blood gratuitously, and for my lord saving for himself: and the doing good of Jehovah to my lord, and remember thy servant And David will say to Abigail, Blessed Jehovah the God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me. And blessed thy discernment, and blessed thou who finished me this day from coming for bloods, and my hand saving for me. But yet Jehovah the God of Israel lives who withheld me from doing thee evil, for unless thou hastenedst and came to meet me, for if there was left to Nabal by the light of the morning him pissing against the wall. And David will take from her hand what she brought to him, and he said to her, Go up for peace to thy house; see, I heard to thy voice, and I will lift up thy face. And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning. And it will be in the morning in the wine coming forth from Nabal, and his wife will announce to him these words, and his heart will die in the midst of him, and he was for a stone.

And David will hear from after this, and he will say, I am innocent, and my kingdom, with Jehovah even forever, from the bloods of Abner son of Ner. It will stay upon the head of Joab and to all the house of his father; and there shall not be cut off from the house of Joab, him flowing, and the leprous, and him holding fast upon a staff, and him falling upon a sword, and him diminished in bread. And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because be slew Asahel their brother in Gibeon in war. read more.
And David will say to Joab and to all the people which were with him, Rend your garments and gird you with sack-cloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David went after the litter. And they will bury Abner in Hebron: and the king will lift up his voice and weep at the grave of Abner; and all the people will weep. And the king will lament for Abner, and he will say, As the fool died will Abner die? Thy hands not bound, and thy feet were not joined to fetters as falling before the sons of iniquity thou fellest. And all the people will add to weep over him. And all the people will come to cause David to eat bread, while yet day. And David will swear, saying, Thus will God do to me, and thus will he add, if before the going down of the sun I shall taste bread or anything. And all the people knew, and it will be good in their eyes, as all the king did was good in the eyes of all the people. And all the people knew, and all Israel, in that day, that it was not from the king to kill Abner son of Ner.

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ; Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things. concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news; read more.
So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest; And many of the brethren in the Lord, having trusted to my bonds, more abundantly dared to speak the word fearlessly. And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ. Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds: And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news: For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice. For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die gain. And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not

And Joab son of Zeruiah, knew that the king's heart was for Absalom. And Joab will send to Tekoah and take from thence a wise woman, and he will say to her, Thou shalt mourn, and put on now garments of mourning, and thou shalt not be anointed with oil, and be thou as a woman this many days mourning for the dead: And come to the king and speak to him according to this word. And Joab will put words in her mouth. read more.
And the woman, the Tekoite, will speak to the king and fall upon her face to the earth, and worship him, and say, Save, O king! And the king will say to her, What to thee? And she will say, Truly I a widow woman, and my husband will die. And to thy servant two sons, and they two will strive in the field, and none delivering between them; and the one will smite the one and kill him. And behold, all the family rose up against thy servant, and they will say, Give him striking his brother and we will kill him for the soul of his brother whom he slew; and they destroyed also the heir, and quenched my coal which was left, so that name was not set to my husband and remainder upon the face of the earth. And the king will say to the woman, Go to thy house and I will command concerning thee. And the woman, the Tekoite, will say to the king, Upon me, my lord the king, the iniquity, and upon my father's house: and the king and his throne innocent And the king will say, Who speaking to thee and bring him to me and he shall not add to touch upon thee. And she will say, The king will remember now, Jehovah thy God, the nearest relation of blood being multiplied to destroy, and they shall not destroy my son. And he will say, Jehovah living, if there shall fall from the hair of thy son to the earth. And the woman will say, Shall thy servant speak now a word to my lord the king? And the king will say, Speak. And the woman will say, And wherefore didst thou reckon according to this concerning the people of God? for the king speaks this word as transgressing for the king not to turn back his fugitive. For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him. And now that I came to speak to the king my lord, this word, for the people will see me, and thy servant will say, I will speak now to the king, perhaps the king will do the word of his servant For the king will hear to deliver his servant from the band of the man destroying me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. And thy servant will say, Now will the word of my lord the king be for a sacrifice, for as a messenger of God, so my lord the king to hear the good and the evil: and Jehovah thy God will be with thee. And the king will answer and say to the woman, Now thou shalt not hide from me the word which I ask thee. And the woman will say, Now will my lord the king speak? And the king will say, The hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman will answer and say, Thy soul living, my lord the king, if there is to the right or to the left from all which my lord the king spake: for thy servant Joab he commanded me, and he put in the mouth of thy servant all these words. For the sake of turning about the face of the word, thy servant Joab did this word: and my lord was wise according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all which is upon the earth. And the king will say to Joab, Behold now, I did this word: and go and turn back the boy Absalom. And Joab will fall upon his face to the earth, and worship him, and bless the king: and Joab will say, This day thy servant knew that I found grace in thine eyes, my lord, O king, for that the king did the word of his servant

And the king will say, Take to me a sword. And they will bring the sword before the king. And the king will say, Divide the living child in two, and ye shall give the half to the one, and the half to the other. And the woman to whom the living son, will say to the king, for her bowels were warm upon her son, and she will say, With leave, my lord, ye shall give to her the living child, and slaying, ye shall not slay him. And this said, It shall not be even to me, even to thee; divide it read more.
And the king will answer and say, Ye shall give to her the living child, and slaying, ye shall not slay it: she is his mother. And all Israel will hear the judgment which the king judged, and they will be afraid of the face of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of Jehovah was in the midst of him to do judgment

And they having heard, honoured the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many ten thousands of Jews there are having believed: and all are zealous of the law: And they were taught about thee, that thou teachest apostasy from Moses, all the Jews among the nations, saying, they are not to circumcise children, nor walk in the customs. What is it therefore? the multitude must all come together: for they will hear that thou hast come. read more.
Therefore do this which we say to thee: Four men are to us having a vow upon them; Having taken these, be purified with them, and expend upon them, that they might shave the head: and all might know that what they are taught about thee is nothing; but thou proceedest in regular order, also thyself watching the law. And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.

And the scribe having calmed the crowd, says, Men, Ephesians, for who is the man that knows not the city of the Ephesians, being templekeeper of the great goddess Diana, and sent by Jove? Therefore these things not being refuted, it is necessary for you to be restrained, and to do nothing rash. For ye brought these men not sacrilegious, nor blaspheming your goddess. read more.
If truly therefore Demetrius, and the artificers with him, have a word against any, the court days are kept, and there are proconsuls; let them prosecute one another. But if ye inquire anything concerning, other things, it shall be explained in a lawful assembly. For we are also in danger to be called in question for this day, being no cause for which we shall be able to give back word of this confederation. And having said these, he loosed the assembly.

And David will counsel with the chiefs of the thousands and the hundreds, to every leader. And David will say to all the convocation of Israel, If good to you, and from Jehovah our God, we will break forth, we will send to all our brethren being left in all the lands of Israel; and with them the priests and the Levites in the cities of their areas, and they shall gather together to us. And we will turn about the ark of our God to us: for we sought it not in the days of Saul. read more.
And all the convocation will say to do thus: for the word was straight in the eyes of all the people.

And Paul having known that one part is of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, cried in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee: for the hope and rising up of the dead am I judged. And he having spoken this, there was a dissension of the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. For truly the Sadducees say there is no rising up, neither messenger, nor spirit: and the Pharisees acknowledge both. read more.
And there was a great cry: and the scribes of the Pharisees' part, having risen, struggled with obstinacy, saying, We find nothing evil in this man: but if a spirit or messenger spake to him, we should not contend against God. And there being much dissension, the captain of a thousand, having dreaded lest Paul be torn asunder by them, commanded the army, having gone down, to snatch him from the midst of them, and bring into the camp.

And the men of Ephraim will say to him, Why didst thou this word to us, that thou calledst not to us when thou wentest to war against Midian? and they will contend with him with strength. And he will say to them, What now did I according to you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim good above the vintage of Abi-Ezer? Into your hand God gave the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do according to you? Then was their spirit relaxed from over him in his speaking this word.

Him Paul wished to go forth with him; and having taken, he circumcised him, on account of the Jews being in those places: for all knew his father that he was a Greek.

Esther announced not her people and her birth: for Mordecai commanded to her that she shall not announce.

And Esther will answer and say, My asking and my seeking:

If I found favor in the eyes of the king, and if good to the king to give my asking and to do my seeking, the king shall come and Haman to the drinking that I shall make for them, and to-morrow I will do as the king said.