Proverbs 15:18
Short-tempered people stir up trouble, but those slow to anger calm things down.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
In Context
17Better a dinner of vegetables where there's love than eating meat with hatred.
19The way of lazy people is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the good is an open highway.
Cross References
Genesis 13:8So Abram said to Lot, “Please don't let's have arguments between us, or between our herdsmen, because we're family.
1 Samuel 25:24Falling at his feet in respect, she said, “Sir, I accept full responsibility for what's happened. Please listen to what I, your servant, have to say.
Proverbs 10:12Hatred causes conflict, but love covers all wrongs.
Proverbs 15:1A kind reply wards off anger, but hurtful words make people mad.
Proverbs 22:24Don't make friends with someone who gets upset easily; don't associate with angry people,
Proverbs 26:21An argumentative person fires up quarrels like putting charcoal on hot embers or wood on a fire.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:17-18
16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast; Christian contentment, and joy in God, make the life easy and pleasant; now here he tells us what is necessary to that cheerfulness of spirit which will furnish a man with a continual feast, though he… Read the whole commentary →