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Proverbs 15:1
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A gentle answer turns away anger,
A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
A gentle answer will calm a person's anger, but an unkind answer will cause more anger.
A soft and gentle and thoughtful answer turns away wrath, But harsh and painful and careless words stir up anger.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
A soft answere putteth away wrath: but grieuous wordes stirre vp anger.
A gentle answer turns away wrath,But a harsh word stirs up anger.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
A kind answer soothes angry feelings, but harsh words stir them up.
A gentle response deflects fury, but a harsh word makes tempers rise.
A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.
A SOFT word turns away wrath; but a harsh word stirs up anger.
A gentle answer quiets anger, but a harsh one stirs it up.
A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir anger.
A soft answer turns back wrath, but a hurtful word stirs up anger.
A softe aswere putteth downe displeasure, but frowarde wordes prouoke vnto anger.
A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.
By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
A soft answer turneth away wrath; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.
A soft answere turneth away wrath: but grieuous words stirre vp anger.
A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.
Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger.
A SOFT answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger.
A soft answere brekith ire; an hard word reisith woodnesse.
A soft answer turns away wrath; But a grievous word stirs up anger.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.
A gentle answer turns away anger, but a sharp word causes anger.
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
A soft answer, turneth away wrath, but a cutting word raiseth anger.
A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word stirreth up fury.
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.
A gentle response defuses anger, but a sharp tongue kindles a temper-fire.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
soft: Proverbs 25:15, Judges 8:1-3, 1 Samuel 25:21-33
grievous: Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 10:12, Proverbs 28:25, Proverbs 29:22, Judges 12:3-6, 1 Samuel 25:10, 1 Samuel 25:11, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:22, 2 Samuel 19:43, 1 Kings 12:13-16
Reciprocal: Genesis 13:8 - Let Genesis 16:6 - Abram Genesis 32:4 - my lord Joshua 22:21 - answered Joshua 22:30 - it pleased them Judges 8:3 - Then Judges 12:4 - fugitives 1 Samuel 1:15 - my Lord 1 Samuel 17:29 - General 1 Samuel 24:11 - my father 1 Samuel 24:16 - Is this 2 Samuel 2:27 - unless 1 Kings 12:7 - If thou wilt 2 Chronicles 10:7 - If thou be kind 2 Chronicles 10:13 - answered Job 41:3 - General Proverbs 17:14 - leave Acts 6:5 - the saying Acts 11:4 - General Acts 19:41 - when Hebrews 12:14 - Follow James 3:6 - the tongue
Cross-References
After all these things happened, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. God said, "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you and give you a great reward."
But Abram said, "Lord God , there is nothing you can give me that will make me happy, because I have no son. My slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
Abram said, "You have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will get everything I have."
Then the Lord spoke to Abram and said, "That slave will not be the one to get what you have. You will have a son who will get everything you own."
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you cannot count them. Your family will be like that."
Abram believed the Lord , and because of this faith the Lord accepted him as one who has done what is right.
Abram brought all these to God. Abram killed these animals and cut each of them into two pieces. Then he laid each half across from the other half. He did not cut the birds into two pieces.
But then I will punish the nation that made them slaves. Your people will leave that land, and they will take many good things with them.
After four generations your people will come to this land again and defeat the Amorites. That will happen in the future because the Amorites are not yet guilty enough to lose their land."
After the sun went down, it got very dark. The dead animals were still on the ground, each animal cut into two pieces. Then a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between the halves of the dead animals.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A soft answer turneth away wrath,.... Mild words, gentle expressions, delivered with kindness and tenderness, humility and submission; these will work upon a man's passions, weaken his resentments, and break and scatter the storm of wrath raised in his breast, just breaking forth in a very boisterous and blustering manner; so high winds are sometimes laid by soft showers. Thus the Ephraimites were pacified by Gideon's mild answer; and David by Abigail's very submissive and respectful address, Judges 8:1;
but grievous words stir up anger; such as are rough and menacing, scornful and sneering, reproachful and reviling, proud, haughty, and overbearing; like those of Jephthah to the Ephraimites; and of the Ephraimites to the Gileadites; and of Nabal to David's servants, concerning him; and of Rehoboam, who answered the people roughly: in all which instances anger was stirred up, and either were or like to have been attended with bad consequences, Judges 12:1. Or a "word" causing, or rather expressing, "grief" r; upbraiding others with being the cause of grief to them.
r דבר עצב "verbum vel sermo doloris", Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis; vid. Gussetius, p. 177.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XV
The soft answer. Useful correction. Stability of the righteous.
The contented mind. The slothful man. The fool. The covetous.
The impious. The wicked opposed to the righteous; to the
diligent; and to the man who fears the Lord.
NOTES ON CHAP. XV
Verse Proverbs 15:1. A soft answer — Gentleness will often disarm the most furious, where positive derangement has not taken place; one angry word will always beget another, for the disposition of one spirit always begets its own likeness in another: thus kindness produces kindness, and rage produces rage. Universal experience confirms this proverb.
