Proverbs 25:28

A man who does not control his temper
is like a city whose wall is broken down.

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Proverbs 16:32

Patience is better than power,
and controlling one’s temper, than capturing a city.

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul became angry with Jonathan and shouted, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you are siding with Jesse’s son to your own shame and to the disgrace of your mother?

Then Hezekiah strengthened his position by rebuilding the entire broken-down wall and heightening the towers and the other outside wall. He repaired the supporting terraces of the city of David, and made an abundance of weapons and shields.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down.”

Proverbs 22:24

Don’t make friends with an angry man,
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,

1 Samuel 25:17

Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”

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Proverbs 25:28

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

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Patience is better than power,
and controlling one’s temper, than capturing a city.

Don’t make friends with an angry man,
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,

Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”

Proverbs 25:28

Proverbs 25:28

Proverbs 16:32

1 Samuel 20:30

2 Chronicles 32:5

Nehemiah 1:3

Proverbs 22:24

1 Samuel 25:17

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