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

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Footnotes

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

32 Better a patient person than a warrior,
    one with self-control than one who takes a city.

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

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

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Do not be quickly provoked(A) in your spirit,
    for anger resides in the lap of fools.(B)

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Hearing and Doing the Word

19 My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,(A)

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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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