Devine Scripture

James 1:19

James chapter 1 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Context

v.18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

v.19This passage

v.20for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 15:1

    Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:1

    Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

  • Nehemiah 8:2

    And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

  • Proverbs 19:11

    The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

  • Proverbs 19:19

    A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

  • Mark 2:2

    And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he spake the word unto them.