Proverbs 19:11
A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Note discretion: or, prudence
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Topics Anger
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- discretion
- or, prudence. deferreth.
- Proverbs 12:16; Proverbs 14:29; Proverbs 15:18; Proverbs 16:32; Proverbs 17:14; Colossians 3:12, 13; James 1:19
- and
- Proverbs 16:32; Proverbs 20:3; Proverbs 25:21; Genesis 50:15–21; Matthew 5:44, 45; Matthew 18:21, 22; Romans 12:18–21; Ephesians 4:32; Ephesians 5:1