Proverbs 15:1 (NIV)
1A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
James 1:22 (NIV)
22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it–he will be blessed in what he does.
Amos 9:11 (NIV)
11“In that day I will restore David’s fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be,
Acts 15:16-18 (NIV)
16” ‘After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
17that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’
18that have been known for ages