Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Slow

Matthew 11:29
take my yoke upon you, and learn to be meek like me, and of an humble temper: and ye shall enjoy tranquillity of mind.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,
James 1:19
Wherefore, my dear brethren, let every one be eager to hear, averse to contradiction, and deaf to passion.
James 3:17
but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy.

But

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod perceiving he was abused by the Magi, was full of indignation, and sent a detachment who slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and its territory, being under the age of two years, according to the limited time he had learnt of the Magi.