Bible Verses about

Keep Silent


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.

Exodus 14:14

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

Habakkuk 2:20

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

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.

Amos 5:13

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

Luke 19:40

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

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.

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

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.

Acts 18:9

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

Ecclesiastes 3:7

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

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 42:14

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Job 33:33

If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

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.

Psalms 39:2

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

Psalms 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.