Impatience

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Proverbs 14:17

17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Proverbs 14:29

29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Proverbs 15:18

18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Proverbs 19:11

11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 25:8

8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Proverbs 25:28

28Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

2Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Matthew 5:22

22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

James 1:19

19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;