What Does the Bible Say About Be Slow To Take Offense?

James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Titus 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Titus 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

1 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Isaiah 28:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

Revelation 16:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Revelation 14:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”

Revelation 5:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

Romans 14:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Romans 14:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Romans 13:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

34 Bible Verses about Be Slow To Take Offense

James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Titus 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 28:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 16:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Be Slow To Take Offense

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James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Titus 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 28:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 16:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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