the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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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 gentle answer makes anger disappear, but a rough answer makes it grow.
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 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 these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a special dream, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your safe place. Your reward will be very great."
Then Abram said, "O Lord God, what will You give me? For I have no child. And the one who is to receive what belongs to me is Eliezer of Damascus."
Abram said, "Because You have not given me a child, one born in my house will be given all I have."
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "This man will not be given what is yours. But he who will come from your own body will be given what is yours."
He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."
Then Abram believed in the Lord, and that made him right with God.
Then Abram brought all these to Him, and cut them in two. And he laid each half beside the other. But he did not cut the birds.
But I will punish the nation they will serve. And later they will come out with many riches.
Then your great great-grandchildren will return here. For the sins of the Amorite are not yet finished."
When the sun had gone down and it was very dark, a fire pot of smoke and a burning fire passed between these parts of 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.
