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32 The patient are better than warriors,
    and those who rule their temper, better than the conqueror of a city.(A)

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32 Better a patient person than a warrior,
    one with self-control than one who takes a city.

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11 It is good sense to be slow to anger,
    and an honor to overlook an offense.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:11 The paradox is that one obtains one thing by giving up another.

11 A person’s wisdom yields patience;(A)
    it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

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III. Exhortations and Warnings

Doers of the Word. 19 Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear,[a] slow to speak, slow to wrath,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:19–25 To be quick to hear the gospel is to accept it readily and to act in conformity with it, removing from one’s soul whatever is opposed to it, so that it may take root and effect salvation (Jas 1:19–21). To listen to the gospel message but not practice it is failure to improve oneself (Jas 1:22–24). Only conformity of life to the perfect law of true freedom brings happiness (Jas 1:25).

Listening and Doing

19 My dear brothers and sisters,(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(B) and slow to become angry,

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