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Bible Verses About Being Slow to Speak
Find Bible verses about being slow to speak — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about being slow to speak?
The Bible addresses being slow to speak with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
James 1:19
“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”
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Psalms 85:8
“I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.”
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Ephesians 6:20
“for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”
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Psalms 86:15
“But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.”
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Exodus 34:6
“Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,”
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Deuteronomy 32:31
“For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.”
Philippians 1:6
“being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
Psalms 139:13
“For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.”
Hebrews 2:18
“For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.”
Psalms 145:8
“Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.”
Proverbs 19:11
“The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.”
Proverbs 16:32
“One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.”
Psalms 103:8
“Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.”
Numbers 14:18
“'Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the...”
Acts 2:4
“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.”
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Psalms 77:4 — “You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak....”
1 Kings 22:14 — “Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak."...”
Ecclesiastes 3:7 — “a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;...”
Luke 7:15 — “He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother....”
John 16:21 — “A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the...”
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