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Proverbs 29:8

Mockers inflame a city,

but the wise turn away anger.

Proverbs 29:8 BSB

Proverbs 29:8 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 11:11 (6 votes) and Jeremiah 15:1 (4 votes). 5 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Exodus 32 to James 5.

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Which verses does Proverbs 29:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Proverbs 11:116 votes

    By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

  2. Jeremiah 15:14 votes

    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

  3. Proverbs 16:143 votes

    The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

  4. James 3:5–63 votes

    In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze. The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

  5. James 5:15–183 votes

    And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail. …

  6. Exodus 32:10–142 votes

    Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.” But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? …

  7. Numbers 16:482 votes

    He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

  8. Numbers 25:112 votes

    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.

  9. Deuteronomy 9:18–202 votes

    Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well. …

  10. 2 Samuel 24:16–172 votes

    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”

  11. Isaiah 28:14–222 votes
  12. Ezekiel 22:302 votes
  13. Amos 7:2–62 votes
  14. Matthew 27:39–432 votes
  15. John 9:40–412 votes
  16. John 11:47–502 votes
  17. 1 Thessalonians 2:15–162 votes

Which verses point to Proverbs 29:8?

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