Proverbs 14:29

Bible in Basic English 1965

He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:17

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

Proverbs 14:28

A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

Proverbs 15:18

An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

Proverbs 17:27

He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.

Proverbs 19:11

A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

Proverbs 25:28

He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.

Proverbs 25:8

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Proverbs 4:8

Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

Ecclesiastes 10:6

The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Numbers 12:3

Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

Matthew 11:29

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

James 1:19

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;