What Does the Bible Say About Gentle Word?

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Job 15:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Job 15:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Job 15:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ...

Job 15:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Philippians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Acts 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Mark 10:1-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ...

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Job 15:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”

Job 15:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

Job 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

Job 15:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.

Job 15:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.

Job 15:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

Job 15:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

Job 15:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

Job 15:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist

Job 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

Job 15:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

Job 15:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

Job 15:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

Job 15:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 15:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

Job 15:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

Job 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,

Job 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare

Job 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

Job 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?

Job 15:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

Job 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

Job 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Job 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Job 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

Job 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.

Job 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?

Job 15:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 15:1-35:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ...

Genesis 12:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ...

51 Bible Verses about Gentle Word

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