Proverbs 29:8

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

Cross References (17)

  • Proverbs 11:11 (6)

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

  • Jeremiah 15:1 (4)

    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Se

  • James 5:15–18 (3)

    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

  • Proverbs 16:14 (3)

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

  • James 3:5–6 (3)

    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

  • Deuteronomy 9:18–20 (2)

    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 d

  • Matthew 27:39–43 (2)

    And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads

  • John 9:40–41 (2)

    Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

  • 2 Samuel 24:16–17 (2)

    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the ange

  • Numbers 25:11 (2)

    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15–16 (2)

    who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile

  • Ezekiel 22:30 (2)

    I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I shoul

  • Exodus 32:10–14 (2)

    Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

  • Amos 7:2–6 (2)

    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive,

  • Isaiah 28:14–22 (2)

    Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

  • John 11:47–50 (2)

    Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many si

  • Numbers 16:48 (2)

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