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 vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Job 18:4
Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit 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 takes a city.
Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
Fret
Psalm 31:22
As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.
Psalm 73:15
If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him, and he has returned me evil for good.
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jonah 4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Luke 9:54
And his disciples James and John having seen, they said, Lord, do thou want that we should call fire to come down from the sky, and consume them, as also Elijah did?