Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Wisdom counsel values patience and cautions against quick anger.
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Anonymous. Largely a farewell address placed in Moses' mouth by a narrator who goes on to describe his death.
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Anonymous. Tells Joshua's story in the third person.
Psalms6 verses →
Many hands over centuries. Superscriptions assign a number to David; those are ancient editorial notes, not signatures.
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A collection headed as Solomon's, which elsewhere names other compilers.
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Written in the voice of 'the Preacher, the son of David' — a role rather than a name.
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Spans centuries of material and has long been read as the work of more than one hand.
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Anonymous. Tradition assigns it to Jeremiah; the text does not.
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Anonymous. The name is a second-century attribution.
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Anonymous. Names its own source only as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved'.
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Named by the text and widely accepted — the clearest authorship in the Bible. Several letters bearing his name are disputed and are marked as such.
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Names its author only as James, a very common name. Which James is disputed.
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Names Peter. Its polished Greek has made that contested since antiquity.
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Names its author as John. Which John has been disputed since the third century.
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View all filters →Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Practical teaching calls for honesty, careful handling of anger, and words that build others up.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
Practical teaching calls for honesty, careful handling of anger, and words that build others up.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
A promise of restoration to Israel uses the image of receiving a new heart and spirit.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
Joseph addresses the brothers who harmed him, distinguishing their intentions from the preservation of many lives.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James describes wisdom marked by gentleness, mercy, sincerity, and peacemaking.
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
James describes wisdom marked by gentleness, mercy, sincerity, and peacemaking.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
God invites Jeremiah to call for understanding while the prophet is confined.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
In the farewell discourse, Jesus encourages prayer and speaks of receiving joy.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman about living water that becomes a source of life.
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
At the festival, Jesus invites the thirsty and speaks of living water flowing outward.
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
At the festival, Jesus invites the thirsty and speaks of living water flowing outward.