Proverbs 19:11
Good News Translation
If you are sensible, you will control your temper. When someone wrongs you, it is a great virtue to ignore it.

New Revised Standard Version
Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.

Contemporary English Version
It's wise to be patient and show what you are like by forgiving others.

New American Bible
It is good sense to be slow to anger, and an honor to overlook an offense.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.

discretion or prudence

Proverbs 12:16 A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise.

Proverbs 14:29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Proverbs 15:18 A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.

Proverbs 16:32 The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.

Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.

Colossians 3:12,13 Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: . . .

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

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Proverbs 16:32 The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.

Proverbs 20:3 It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches.

Proverbs 25:21 If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Genesis 50:15-21 Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. . . .

Matthew 5:44,45 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: . . .

Matthew 18:21,22 Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? . . .

Romans 12:18-21 If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men. . . .

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

Context
The Man of Integrity
10Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes. 11The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.12As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

Ephesians 4:32
And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Colossians 3:13
Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

2 Kings 5:12
Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,

Proverbs 11:13
Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is safety where there is much counsel.

Proverbs 14:29
He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Proverbs 16:32
The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.

Proverbs 29:11
A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

Proverbs 19:10
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