Proverbs 20:2–3

¹²The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

⁴If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

²³Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

³⁶But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

⁸The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

¹⁰They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

¹⁴The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

¹⁵In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

¹⁰Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

³⁸The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

³²He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

¹⁴The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

¹¹The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Verse text is unavailable.

²⁹He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

⁶A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

¹FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

⁶To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

⁷In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

⁸Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

¹⁷He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

²⁴Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

⁹And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

⁸Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

⁹Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

¹⁰Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.