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

A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.

A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

But

Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

Hasty

Esteem her highly and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

Fools are placed in many positions of authority, while wealthy men sit in lowly positions.