Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
And when the town clerk had quieted the people, he said, You men of Ephesus, what man is there that knows not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
For you have brought here these men, who are neither robbers of temples, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;