Proverbs 25:28

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. Also the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.

2 Chronicles 32:5

And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house. For he is such a worthless fellow that [a man] cannot speak to him.

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

Proverbs 19:18

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Proverbs 19:19

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.