Proverbs 14:29
Revised Standard Version
29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Proverbs 16:32
Revised Standard Version
32 He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 19:11
Revised Standard Version
11 Good sense makes a man slow to anger,
and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 23:1-3
Revised Standard Version
23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
observe carefully what[a] is before you;
2 and put a knife to your throat
if you are a man given to appetite.
3 Do not desire his delicacies,
for they are deceptive food.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:1 Or who
Proverbs 25:28
Revised Standard Version
28 A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Proverbs 29:1
Revised Standard Version
29 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
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