Proverbs 14:29

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Summary

Proverbs 14:29

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Slow

But

Matthew 2:16

Hasty

Proverbs 4:8

Ecclesiastes 10:6

Bible References

Slow

He that is quickly angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked intentions is hated.

A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger quiets strife.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.

(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men who were upon the face of the earth.)

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:

Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the region thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Hasty

Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.