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 resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one 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 wrath,

This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

Fret

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed 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 to him. He has returned me evil for good.

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

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them?"