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 vexation kills the fool, and envy slays the simple one.
Job 18:4
He tears himself in his anger; shall the earth be forsaken for you? And shall the rock be moved out of its place?
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry, and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down upon your wrath,
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
Fret
Psalm 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my cries, when I cried to You.
Psalm 73:15
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would deceive a generation of Your sons.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
1 Samuel 25:21
And David had said, Surely in vain I have kept all that belongs to this fellow in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his. And he has requited me evil for good.
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jonah 4:1
But it was a great calamity in Jonah's sight, and it kindled anger in him.
Luke 9:54
And seeing, His disciples James and John said, Lord, do You desire that we command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?