Psalm 37:8

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Summary

Psalm 37:8

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

Cease

James 3:14

Fret

Luke 9:54

Bible References

Cease

“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple.

“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?

He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Fret

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.

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars.”

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.

Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.

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?”