Proverbs 25:28

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:5

He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

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 19:18

Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.

Proverbs 19:19

A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

1 Samuel 20:30

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

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him.”