Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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Bible References
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Proverbs 14:29
Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.
Proverbs 16:32
A patient man is better than one strong; and he that can rule himself, is more worth than he that winneth a city.
Proverbs 17:14
He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.
Proverbs 19:11
A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.
Proverbs 25:8
Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Ephesians 4:32
Be ye courteous one to another, and merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you.
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye followers of God as dear children,
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Proverbs 14:17
An impatient man handleth foolishly; but he that is well advised, doth other ways.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool's lips are ever brawling, and his mouth provoketh unto battle.
Proverbs 21:24
He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously.
2 Kings 14:9
But Joash king of Israel sent again to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "A thistle in Lebanon sent to a cypress tree in Lebanon, saying, 'Give thy daughter to my son to wife.' But the wild beasts in Lebanon went and trod down the thistle.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.
James 4:1
From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?