Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Hasty
Bible References
Hasty
1 Samuel 25:21
(Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this man hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Esther 3:5
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Proverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
Jonah 4:9
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.
Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Anger
Genesis 4:5
But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 34:7
And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
2 Samuel 13:22
And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
Proverbs 26:23
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Mark 6:19
Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: