Proverbs 20:3

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”

You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.