Proverbs 25:15

American King James Version (1999)

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

Cross References

Job 41:3

Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you?

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Proverbs 16:14

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 16:32

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

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for yielding pacifies great offenses.

Judges 14:9

And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.

1 Samuel 25:14

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.