32 Patience is better than power,
and controlling one’s temper,[a] than capturing a city.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:32 Lit and ruling over one’s spirit

11 A person’s insight gives him patience,(A)
and his virtue is to overlook an offense.(B)

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Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry,
for anger abides in the heart of fools.(A)

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Hearing and Doing the Word

19 My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,(A)

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