Proverbs 25:15
If you're patient you can persuade your superior, and soft words can break down opposition.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
In Context
14Someone who boasts about a gift they never give is like cloud and wind without rain.
16If you find honey, eat just enough, for if you eat too much, you'll be sick.
Cross References
Judges 14:9He scraped out some of the honey into his hands and ate it as he walked. When he got back to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he didn't tell them he'd taken the honey from a lion's carcass.
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 15:1A kind reply wards off anger, but hurtful words make people mad.
Proverbs 16:32Better to be slow to anger than to be powerful, better to have self-control than to conquer a town.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:15
14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. He may be said to boast of a false gift, 1. Who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, which he never gave, makes a noise of his great accomplishments and his good services, but it is all false; he is not what he pretends to be. Or, 2. Who promises what he will give and what he will do, but performs nothing, who raises people's expectations of the mighty things he will do for his country, for his friends, what… Read the whole commentary →