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).
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?
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].
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.
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].
Psalm 73:15

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.”
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!
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?”