Numbers 14:18

18 a‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

Proverbs 14:17

17A man of cquick temper acts foolishly,
and a man of evil devices is hated.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

8Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,
and dthe patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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