Proverbs 25:15

Modern English Version

With patience is a prince persuaded, and a gentle tongue will break a 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 a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 16:14

The wrath of kings is as messengers of death, but a man of wisdom will appease it.

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the angry spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your position, for calmness pacifies great offenses.

Judges 14:9

He scooped it out into his hands and ate it as he went along. He came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they also ate. Yet he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of a lion’s carcass.

1 Samuel 25:14

Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our master; and he railed against them.