Cross references

Proverbs 25:28

Like a city whose walls are broken down

is a man who does not control his temper.

Proverbs 25:28 BSB

Proverbs 25:28 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 16:32 (25 votes) and Proverbs 22:24 (14 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 4 other books, from 1 Samuel 20 to James 1.

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Which verses does Proverbs 25:28 point to?

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  1. He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

  2. Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

  3. And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

  4. Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.

  5. Then 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 shame of the mother who bore you?

  6. Now 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!”

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