What Does the Bible Say About Start Slow?

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

James 1:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 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.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 43:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

1 John 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

James 4:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 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.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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;

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 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.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

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.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

35 Bible Verses about Start Slow

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 1:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 43:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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35 Bible Verses about Start Slow

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James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 1:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 43:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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