1 Samuel 25:14; 1 Samuel 25:24-44; Ecclesiastes 10:4; Genesis 32:4-21; Proverbs 15:1; Proverbs 16:14
A soft tongue - Winning and gentle speech does what it seems at first least capable of doing; it overcomes obstacles which are as bones that the...
By long (l) forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the (m) bone. (l) By not creating opportunity to provoke him further. (m)...
First Division. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic c...
prince: or judge, persuaded. Compare Genesis 26:13-31 . tongue. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for what is spoken by it. brea...
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. A soft tongue breaketh the bone - This is similar to another proverb o...
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. By long forbearing is a prince (whose anger is more violent an...
Courts. Quarrels 1-7. relate to kings and courts.
CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the e...
Self-Control and Kindliness Proverbs 25:15-28 In this paragraph we have good advice as to our dealings with the varied characters with whom we...
We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gather...
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the...
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded ,.... To come into measures, and do that which his council and ministry advise him to, and to which he may...
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Ver. 15. By long forbearing is a prince persuaded. ] If he be not o...
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded That is, by patient submission and expectation he is pacified, whereas his rage is increased by opposition...
In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For de...
15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Two things are here recommended to us, in dealing...
By long forbearing, by patient submission and expectation, is a prince persuaded, or pacified , whereas his rage is increased by opposition. Com...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 25:15 . Prince . Rather “ Judge ” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 25:15 FORBEARANCE AND PERSUASIVENESS I. Patience...
Proverbs 25:1 . These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out. Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand an...
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. The power of gentleness In the government of our words, mildness...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-29:27 Part VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS , gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wi...
True Wisdom the Highest Good of Kings and Subjects.
By long forbearing is a prince, that is, a judge sitting in a case, persuaded, a persistent, gentle patience very often succeeding in gaining its p...
Forbearing — By patient submission and expectation. Breaketh — Softens the hardest heart.
15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.