My child, help your father in his old age, and don’t give him grief during his life. (Sirach 3:12 CEB)

‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the Lord . (LEVITICUS 19:32 AMP)

So repent [change your inner self--your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God--seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord [restoring you like a cool wind on a hot day]; and that He may send [to you] Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you, (ACTS 3:19‭-‬20 AMP)

Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving]; (JAMES 1:19 AMP)

He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control], But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see]. (PROVERBS 14:29 AMP)

My concern was because of the false brothers [those people masquerading as Christians] who had been secretly smuggled in [to the community of believers].

They had slipped in to spy on the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back into bondage [under the Law of Moses]. (GALATIANS 2:4 AMP)