- My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger James 1:19 BSB
- Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving] James 1:19 AMP
- To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is! Prov 15:23 ESV
- the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’ ” Ex 33:5 BSB
