James 1:19
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Cross References
Numbers 22:27
When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.

Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 14:29
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

Proverbs 17:27
A man of knowledge restrains his words, and a man of understanding maintains a calm spirit.

Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

Acts 1:15
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,

James 1:2
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

James 1:16
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

James 2:1
My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

James 3:1
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

James 3:10
Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!

James 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

James 5:12
Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your "Yes" be yes, and your "No," no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

James 5:19
My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,

1 John 2:21
I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.


Treasury of Scripture
Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

let.



Nehemiah 8:2,3,12-14,18
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month…



Nehemiah 9:3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.



Proverbs 8:32-35
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways…

slow to speak.



James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.



James 3:1,2
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation…



Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

slow to wrath.



Nehemiah 9:17
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.



Proverbs 14:17,29
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated…



Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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