Proverbs 25:15

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:1

A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word stirreth up fury.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

Proverbs 16:14

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

1 Samuel 25:14

But one of the servants told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master; and he rejected them.

Judges 14:9

And when be had taken it in his hands, he went on eating: and coming to his father and mother, he gave them of it, and they ate. But he would not tell them, that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

Job 41:3

I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.

Proverbs 16:32

The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh cities.