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 (naive).
“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple (naive).
Job 18:4
“You who tear yourself apart in anger,
Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake,
Or the rock to be moved out of its place?
“You who tear yourself apart in anger,
Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake,
Or the rock to be moved out of its place?
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control],
But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see].
He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control],
But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see].
Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better and more honorable than the mighty [soldier],
And he who rules and controls his own spirit, than he who captures a city.
He who is slow to anger is better and more honorable than the mighty [soldier],
And he who rules and controls his own spirit, than he who captures a city.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry [at sin—at immorality, at injustice, at ungodly behavior], yet do not sin; do not let your anger [cause you shame, nor allow it to] last until the sun goes down.
James 1:19
Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.
Fret
Psalm 31:22
As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications (specific requests)
When I cried to You [for help].
As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications (specific requests)
When I cried to You [for help].
Psalm 73:15
If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars.”
I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars.”
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected and guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that belonged to him; and he has repaid me evil for good.
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!
Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to 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 destroy them?”
