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 kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one.

He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.

Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

Fret

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

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 unto him: and he has repaid me evil for good.

Cursed be the day on which I was born: let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did?