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

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

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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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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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