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Being Quiet
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 836 helpful votes
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 808 helpful votes
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
James 1:19 ESV / 805 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 734 helpful votes
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 623 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 596 helpful votes
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 586 helpful votes
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 555 helpful votes
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
Psalm 37:7 ESV / 552 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!
Psalm 4:4 ESV / 552 helpful votes
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 546 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— 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 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 505 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 477 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Psalm 35:20 ESV / 475 helpful votes
For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.
Job 6:24 ESV / 474 helpful votes
“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 469 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 462 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.
Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 460 helpful votes
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 422 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 421 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 415 helpful votes
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 409 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.
Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 393 helpful votes
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Mark 1:35 ESV / 389 helpful votes
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 382 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,
James 3:1-18 ESV / 370 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! …
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 358 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Amos 5:13 ESV / 345 helpful votes
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Ecclesiastes 3:7 ESV / 326 helpful votes
A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 322 helpful votes
For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 312 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 303 helpful votes
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
Luke 5:16 ESV / 302 helpful votes
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 296 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 290 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—
Ecclesiastes 9:17 ESV / 290 helpful votes
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
Habakkuk 2:20 ESV / 277 helpful votes
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Judges 16:2 ESV / 275 helpful votes
The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”
Judges 18:7 ESV / 270 helpful votes
Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
Judges 18:27 ESV / 269 helpful votes
But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 263 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Luke 6:12 ESV / 262 helpful votes
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Joshua 1:8-9 ESV / 258 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Job 34:29 ESV / 255 helpful votes
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
Psalm 5:3 ESV / 254 helpful votes
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 252 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.
Proverbs 17:27-28 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Jeremiah 51:59 ESV / 248 helpful votes
The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.
1 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 247 helpful votes
Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
2 Corinthians 10:1-2 ESV / 246 helpful votes
I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.
Mark 16:15 ESV / 245 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Matthew 11:29 ESV / 240 helpful votes
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
1 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 238 helpful votes
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 236 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.
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 235 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 234 helpful votes
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
1 Kings 19:12 ESV / 233 helpful votes
And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.
Matthew 5:5 ESV / 226 helpful votes
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Psalm 141:3 ESV / 225 helpful votes
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 219 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.
Lamentations 3:28 ESV / 219 helpful votes
Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;
Lamentations 3:27-28 ESV / 215 helpful votes
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;
1 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV / 211 helpful votes
We exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 211 helpful votes
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 211 helpful votes
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
1 Samuel 1:19 ESV / 211 helpful votes
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 209 helpful votes
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Job 13:5 ESV / 208 helpful votes
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
Zephaniah 1:7 ESV / 204 helpful votes
Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is near; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.
Isaiah 64:12 ESV / 204 helpful votes
Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
Isaiah 62:1 ESV / 204 helpful votes
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
Psalm 83:1 ESV / 204 helpful votes
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
Psalm 28:1 ESV / 203 helpful votes
Of David. To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
Isaiah 57:11 ESV / 202 helpful votes
Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?
Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 201 helpful votes
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Isaiah 42:14 ESV / 201 helpful votes
For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.
Psalm 50:21 ESV / 201 helpful votes
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
Mark 1:35-37 ESV / 200 helpful votes
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
Psalm 109:1 ESV / 200 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise!
Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 199 helpful votes
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Job 2:13 ESV / 198 helpful votes
And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
2 Kings 2:3 ESV / 192 helpful votes
And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”
Judges 18:19 ESV / 192 helpful votes
And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 189 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Acts 19:36 ESV / 182 helpful votes
Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.
Nahum 1:12 ESV / 182 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord, “Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
2 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 181 helpful votes
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 178 helpful votes
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 177 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 171 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 168 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,
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 166 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Psalm 22:23 ESV / 166 helpful votes
You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
Matthew 17:20 ESV / 164 helpful votes
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 160 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
1 Kings 19:11-12 ESV / 156 helpful votes
And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.
Isaiah 41:1 ESV / 148 helpful votes
Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
2 Corinthians 10:1 ESV / 142 helpful votes
I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—
Zechariah 2:13 ESV / 142 helpful votes
Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
Romans 3:19 ESV / 129 helpful votes
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
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