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 wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

Fret

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?