Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Bible References

Cease

Job 5:2
“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple.
Job 18:4
“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
James 1:19
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Fret

Psalm 31:22
As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You.
Psalm 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my alarm,
All men are liars.”
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
Jonah 4:1
But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.
Luke 9:54
When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”