Proverbs 29:22

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

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

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

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

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

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

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

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

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

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

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

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?

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

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

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

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

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;

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

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

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?’ ”

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

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

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

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

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.

Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

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

For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”