Proverbs 16:32 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³²He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Proverbs 16:32 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 25:28
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Topics

Anger Gentleness Graces Jesus, the Christ Meekness Patience Self-Denial Strife

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 32)

This recommends the grace of meekness to us, which will well become us all, particularly the hoary head, Prov. 16:31. Observe, 1. The nature of it. It is to be slow to anger, not easily put into a passion, nor apt to resent provocation, taking time to consider before we suffer our passion to break out, that it may not transgress due bounds, so slow in our motions towards anger that we may be quick…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 32)

32. (Compare Pr 14:29). taketh a city--that is, by fighting.