THEOSISProverbs 16:32Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.
ט֤וֹב אֶ֣רֶךְ אַ֭פַּיִם מִגִּבּ֑וֹר וּמֹשֵׁ֥ל בְּ֝רוּח֗וֹ מִלֹּכֵ֥ד עִֽיר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jas 1:19You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
- Prov 15:18A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.
- Prov 25:28As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.
- Prov 14:29He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.
- Rom 12:21Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.
- Prov 19:11The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.
- Ps 103 (102):8
- Eph 5:1Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: