What Does the Bible Say About Quiet Spirit?

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

James 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Titus 2:3-5 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, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Acts 7:59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Matthew 19:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”

Matthew 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Song of Solomon 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

35 Bible Verses about Quiet Spirit

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 7:59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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35 Bible Verses about Quiet Spirit

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1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 7:59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes