Bible Dictionary: Being Silent

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Topical Bible Verses

Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
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1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also said the law.
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Zephaniah 1:7
Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD has prepared a sacrifice, he has bid his guests.
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Psalm 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
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Library

The Real High Priest and his Counterfeit
... It was baffled by Jesus being silent first, and subsequently taking His stand on
the undeniable principle that a charge must be sustained by evidence, not ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the real high priest and.htm

The Wheat and the Tares
... He, being silent, yet speaketh, and bids us learn our limits, and be content
to be surpassed. We are next told his rank. He was a Levite. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the wheat and the tares.htm

John Chapter xiii. 10-15.
... Lord who is the Lord, let Him say what is true who is the Truth; so that I may not
fail to learn that which is profitable, by His being silent about that which ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate lviii john chapter xiii.htm

Silent Christians
... all Christian principle, inasmuch as one main purpose of the Gospel being given
us ... meant to deliver us is the very thing that these idle, silent believers are ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/silent christians.htm

Matt. xxvii. 11, 12
... accuse Him, and this though He was silent, but they were refuted even then by reason
of the abundance of His righteous deeds, and being silent He overcame them ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxxvi matt xxvii 11.htm

John i. 1
... For in the first case there was a good excuse for silence, namely, His desire to
teach mankind humility by being silent as to the greatness of His attributes ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily iii john i 1.htm

Justification.
... For, behold, our objection is not that you deny the reconciliation through His blood,
but that, by being silent on the question of God's right, and of our ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/cxxx justification.htm

Matt. I. 1
... recounting the race of a mere man, one might naturally have been silent touching
these things; but if of God Incarnate, so far from being silent, one ought to ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily iii matt i 1.htm

Holy Exercises of Contrition.
... and his works! 2. Alas, what shall I say? I will call and cry unto Thee,
O Lord my God; why am I consumed being silent? 3. Weep, O ...
/.../holy exercises of contrition.htm

A Confirmation of what Hath Been Said, Particularly of the ...
... And whatsoever thou findest proper to increase that desire, be it praying or reading,
speaking or being silent, travailing or reposing, make use of it for the ...
/.../chapter vi a confirmation of.htm