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Proverbs 25:28
Proverbs 25:28 is verse 28 of Proverbs chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
King James Version
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
World English Bible
Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
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Proverbs 25:26–28 · Berean Standard Bible
26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
27 It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
28 Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 16:32He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.
Proverbs 22:24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
1 Samuel 25:17Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”