18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,(A)
    but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.(B)

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18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

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

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11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

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Since an overseer(A) manages God’s household,(B) he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.(C)

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For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

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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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19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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