³ It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

¹⁴ The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

¹¹ A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

⁶ A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

³² He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

²⁹ He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

¹ What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

³² And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

¹ Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

⁸ Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;

⁸ Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

⁹ Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:

¹⁰ Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.

²⁴ The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.

¹⁷ He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

⁹ And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.