Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Proverbs 15:1

“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”

Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Proverbs 15:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Proverbs 15. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 10 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Proverbs 25:15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
  • Proverbs 10:12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
  • Proverbs 15:18A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
  • Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
  • Proverbs 28:25He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
  • Judges 8:1And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
  • 1 Samuel 25:10And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
  • 1 Kings 12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;
  • Judges 12:3And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unt…
  • 1 Samuel 25:21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

More to meet God in Proverbs

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.