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 of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls;
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,
James 1:19
Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

But

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi.