Is there no end to windy words? What ails you that you answer thus?

How long till you put an end to words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.

Let not a man who speaks evil be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

In the abundance of words there is no end of transgression, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.

Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What does this empty talker want to say? And others, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign demons, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;