What Does the Bible Say About Sit Quietly?

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling,

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 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.

James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

James 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

Galatians 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Acts 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.

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 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ...

Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide. All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear! For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away. ...

Ecclesiastes 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

2 Chronicles 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded,

30 Bible Verses about Sit Quietly

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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30 Bible Verses about Sit Quietly

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1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes