Bible Verses about

About Keeping Silent


Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

1 Timothy 2:12

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Exodus 14:14

The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

1 Corinthians 14:28

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Job 13:5

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Psalms 39:2

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 83:1

{A Song or Psalm of Asaph.} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

1 Corinthians 14:30

If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Isaiah 41:1

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

Lamentations 3:28

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Mark 9:34

But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.