Proverbs 25:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.

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  • Prov 15:1 : 1 A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.
  • Eccl 10:4 : 4 If a principall spirite be geuen thee to beare rule, be not negligent then in thine office: for he that can take cure of him selfe, auoydeth great offences.
  • Prov 16:14 : 14 The kinges displeasure is a messenger of death: but a wise man wyll pacifie hym.
  • Gen 32:4-9 : 4 And he commaunded them, saying: Thus shall ye speake to my Lorde Esau, thy seruaunt Iacob sayeth thus: I haue ben a straunger with Laban, and haue stayed there vnto this time. 5 And haue oxen, asses, and sheepe, menseruauntes, and womenseruauntes: and haue sent to shewe it my Lord, that I may finde grace in thy sight. 6 And the messengers came agayne to Iacob, saying: we came to thy brother Esau, and he commeth to meete thee, and hath foure hundred men with him. 7 But Iacob was greatly afrayde, and wist not whiche way to turne him selfe: and deuided the people that was with him, and the sheepe, and oxen, and camelles, into two companies: 8 And sayd, if Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other shall saue it selfe. 9 And Iacob said agayne: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isahac, Lorde whiche saydest vnto me, returne vnto thy countrey, and to thy kindred, & I will do well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercyes and trueth whiche thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iordane, & nowe haue I gotten two companies. 11 Deliuer me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I feare hym, lest he wyll come and smyte me, yea the mother with the chyldren. 12 Thou saydest, I wyll surely do thee good, and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, whiche can not be numbred for multitude. 13 And he taryed there that same nyght, and toke of that whiche came to hande, a present for Esau his brother: 14 Two hundred shee gotes, and twentie hee gotes, two hundred sheepe, & twentie rammes, 15 Thirtie milche camelles with theyr coltes, fourtie kine, and ten bulles, twentie shee asses, and ten foales: 16 And deliuered them into the handes of his seruauntes, euery droue by them selues, and sayde vnto his seruauntes: go foorth before me, and put a space betwixt droue and droue. 17 And he commaunded the formost, saying: If Esau my brother meete thee, and aske thee, saying, whose art thou? and whyther goest thou? and whose are these that go before thee? 18 Thou shalt say, they be thy seruaunt Iacobs, and it is a present sent vnto my Lorde Esau, and beholde, he him selfe commeth after vs. 19 And so commaunded he the seconde, and the thirde, and all that folowed the droues, saying: on this maner see that you speake vnto Esau when ye meete hym. 20 And say moreouer: beholde, thy seruaunt Iacob also commeth after vs: for he sayde, I wyll appeace his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him my selfe, peraduenture he wyll receaue me to grace. 21 So went the present before hym: and he taryed al that night in the company.
  • 1 Sam 25:14 : 14 But one of the laddes tolde Abigail Nabals wyfe, saying: Beholde, Dauid sent messengers vnto our maister out of the wildernesse to salute him: and he rayled on them.
  • 1 Sam 25:24-44 : 24 And fell at his feete, and sayde: Let this iniquitie be counted myne my lord, and let thyne handmaide I praye thee speake in thyne audience, & heare the wordes of thy handmayd. 25 Let not my lorde I pray thee regarde this wicked man Nabal: For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, & folly is with him: But I thyne handmayd sawe not the young men of my lorde whom thou sendedst. 26 Now therefore my lorde, as the Lord lyueth, and as thy soule liueth, euen the Lorde that hath withholden thee from comming to shed blood, and saued thee thyne hand: So nowe, I pray God that thyne enemies, & they that intende to do my lorde euyll, may be as Nabal. 27 And now this blessing which thyne handmayd hath brought vnto my lord, let it be geuen vnto the young men that folowe my lorde. 28 I praye thee forgeue the trespasse of thyne handmayd: for the Lorde will make my lord a sure house, because my lorde fighteth the battailes of the Lord, and there could none euill be found in thee in all thy dayes. 29 And yet a man hath rysen to persecute thee, and to seeke thy soule: but the soule of my Lorde shall be bound in the bundel of the lyuyng with the Lord thy God, and the soules of thy enemies shall God cast out, euen as out of the middle of a slyng. 30 And when the Lorde shall haue done to my lord al the good that he hath promysed thee, and shall haue made thee ruler ouer Israel: 31 Then shall it be no griefe vnto thee, nor offence of mynde vnto my lorde, that thou hast not shed blood causelesse, and that my lord hath not auenged him selfe: But when the Lorde shall haue dealt well with my lord, then thinke on thyne handmayde. 32 And Dauid said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meete me. 33 Blessed is thy saying, and blessed art thou which hast kept me this day from comming to shed blood, & from auengeing my selfe with myne owne hande. 34 For in very deede, as the Lorde God of Israel lyueth, which hath kept me backe from hurting thee: except thou haddest hasted and met me, surely there hadde not ben left vnto Nabal by the dawnyng of the day, any that pysseth against the wall. 35 And so Dauid receaued of her hande that which she had brought him, and sayde vnto her: Go vp in peace to thyne house, beholde I haue heard thy voyce, and haue graunted thy petition. 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and beholde, he held a feast in his house lyke the feast of a king, and Nabals heart was mery within hym, for he was very drunken: Wherfore she tolde him nothyng neither lesse nor more, vntyll the morowe mornyng. 37 But in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wyfe tolde him these wordes, and his heart dyed within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And vpon a ten dayes after, the Lord smote Nabal, that he dyed. 39 And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead, he sayd: Blessed be the Lord that hath iudged ye cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, & hath kept his seruaunt from euill: For the Lord hath recompenced the wickednes of Nabal vpon his owne head. And Dauid sent to commune with Abigail, to take her to his wyfe. 40 And when the seruauntes of Dauid were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake vnto her, saying: Dauid sent vs vnto thee, to take thee to his wyfe. 41 And she arose, & bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and saide: Beholde, let thy handmayd be a seruaunt, to washe the feete of the seruauntes of my lorde. 42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, & gate her vpon an Asse, with fiue damosels of hers that went at her feete, and she went after the messengers of Dauid, & became his wyfe. 43 Dauid also toke Ahinoam of Iezrael, and they were both his wyues. 44 But Saul had geuen Michol his daughter, Dauids wyfe, to Phalti the sonne of Lais, which was of Gallim.

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  • Prov 15:1-2
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    1A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.

    2The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght: as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.

  • Prov 16:13-15
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    13Ryghteous lippes are pleasaunt vnto kynges, and them that speaketh the trueth shall he loue.

    14The kinges displeasure is a messenger of death: but a wise man wyll pacifie hym.

    15The chearfull countenaunce of the kyng is life: and his louyng fauour is as a cloude of the latter rayne.

  • Prov 16:23-24
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    23A wyse heart ordereth his mouth wisely, and ministreth learnyng vnto his lippes.

    24Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.

  • Prov 14:29-30
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    29He that is patient hath much vnderstanding: but he that is soone displeased, exalteth foolishnesse.

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  • Eccl 10:4
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    4If a principall spirite be geuen thee to beare rule, be not negligent then in thine office: for he that can take cure of him selfe, auoydeth great offences.

  • Prov 29:1
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  • Prov 25:16
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    16If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18An angry man stirreth vp strife: but he that is patient stylleth discorde.

  • Prov 16:32
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    32A patient man is better the one strong: and he that can rule hym selfe, is more worth then he that wynneth a citie.

  • Prov 19:11-12
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    12The kynges displeasure is lyke the roaryng of a Lion: but his fauour is lyke the deawe vpon the grasse.

  • Prov 25:14
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    14Whoso maketh great boastes and geueth nothing, is lyke cloudes and winde without rayne.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.

  • Prov 25:23
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    23The northwinde dryueth away the rayne: euen so doth an angry countenaunce a backbiters tongue.

  • Prov 28:2
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    2For the wickednes of the lande, the prince is oft chaunged: but thorowe a man of vnderstanding and wysdome, a realme endureth long.

  • Prov 17:27
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    27A wyse man vseth fewe wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of a pacient spirite.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23Who so kepeth his mouth and his tongue, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

  • Prov 28:23
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    23He that folowyng my preceptes rebuketh a man, shall fynde more fauour at the last then he that flattereth hym.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A foole vttereth all his mynde at once: but a wyse man kepeth it in tyll afterwarde.

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    20Seest thou a man that is hastie to speake vnaduisedly? there is more hope in a foole then in hym.

    21He that delicately bryngeth vp his seruaunt from a chylde, shall make hym his maister at length.

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    14A priuie rewarde pacifieth displeasure: and a gyft in the bosome stylleth furiousnesse.

  • Prov 10:19
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    19Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.

  • Prov 12:18
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    18A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.

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    7Speache of aucthoritie becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying mouth then beseemeth a prince.

  • Prov 25:11-12
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    11A worde spoken in due season, is lyke apples of golde in a graued worke of siluer.

    12Who so reproueth a wyse man that hath an obedient eare, is as a golden earring, and an ornament of fine golde.

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    16Where the prince is without vnderstanding, there is great oppression and wrong: but if he hateth couetousnes, he shall long raigne.

  • Job 6:25
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    25How strong are the wordes of trueth? and which of you can rebuke or reproue them?

  • Prov 10:13
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    13In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding, a man shall finde wysdome: but the rod belongeth to the backe of the foolishe.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the iust wyll be talking of wisdome: but the tongue of the frowarde shall be cut out.

  • Prov 7:21
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    21Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2Of the fruite of a wise mans mouth shall eche man eate good thynges: but the wicked shall eate of the fruite of the transgressours.

  • Prov 16:21
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    21Who so is wyse in heart, shalbe called prudent: and the sweetnesse of his lippes encreaseth learnyng.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.

  • Prov 15:23
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    23A ioyfull thing it is to a man whe his counsayle is folowed: and howe good is a worde spoken in season.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:

  • Prov 12:25
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    25Heauinesse discourageth the heart of man: but a good worde maketh it glad agayne.

  • Prov 31:26
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    26She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and in her tongue is the lawe of grace.

  • Prov 13:15
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    15Good vnderstandyng geueth fauour: but harde is the way of the dispisers.

  • Prov 30:32
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    32If thou hast done foolishly when thou wast in hye estate, or yf thou hast taken euyll counsayle, then lay thine hande vpon thy mouth.