32He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
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 qui…
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