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

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

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

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Fret

I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars."

Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow 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 on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"