Reference: Anger
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A violent emotion of a painful nature, sometimes arising spontaneously upon just occasion, but usually characterized in the Bible as a great sin, Mt 5:22; Eph 4:31; Col 3:8. Even when just, our anger should be mitigated by a due consideration of the circumstances of the offence and the state of mind of the offender; of the folly and ill-results of this passion; of the claims of the gospel, and of our own need of forgiveness from others, but especially from God, Mt 6:15. Anger is in Scripture frequently attributed to God, Mt 7:11; 28:20; not that he is liable to those violent emotions which this passion produces, but figuratively speaking, that is, after the manner of men; and because he punishes the wicked with severity of a superior provoked to anger.
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"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
"But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.
"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
Easton
the emotion of instant displeasure on account of something evil that presents itself to our view. In itself it is an original susceptibility of our nature, just as love is, and is not necessarily sinful. It may, however, become sinful when causeless, or excessive, or protracted (Mt 5:22; Eph 4:26; Col 3:8). As ascribed to God, it merely denotes his displeasure with sin and with sinners (Ps 7:11).
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God is a righteous judge, And a God who has indignation every day.
"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
Hastings
In OT 'anger' represents about a dozen Heb. roots, which occur as nouns, vbs. (once 'angered' is used transitively, Ps 106:32), and adjs. By far the most frequent words are anaph (lit. 'to snort') and its deriv. noun aph, which is used of the anger both of men (Ge 27:45; 30:2; Ex 11:8; 32:19; etc.) and God (Ex 4:14; 32:22; Ps 6:1; 7:6 etc.). In NT 'anger' is of much less frequent occurrence, and represents only 2 roots: (1) the noun org
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until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
"All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me, saying, 'Go out, you and all the people who follow you,' and after that I will go out " And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
It came about, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.
Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.
O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your wrath.
Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; Lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries, And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment.
They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things;
"He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
"If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, "I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU."
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,
Watsons
ANGER, a resentful emotion of the mind, arising upon the receipt, or supposed receipt, of an affront or injury; and also simple feeling of strong displacency at that which is in itself evil, or base, or injurious to others. In the latter sense it is not only innocent but commendable. Strong displeasure against evil doers, provided it be free from hatred and malice, and interferes not with a just placableness, is also blameless, Eph 4:26. When it is vindictive against the person of our neighbour, or against the innocent creatures of God, it is wicked, Mt 5:22. When anger, hatred, wrath, and fury, are ascribed to God, they denote no tumultuous passion, but merely his holy and just displeasure with sin and sinners and the evidence of it in his terrible threatenings, or righteous judgments, Ps 6:1; 7:11. We must, however, take care that we refine not too much. These are Scriptural terms, and are often used of God; and though they express not a tumultuous, much less an unjust, passion, there is something in God which answers to them. In him they are principles arising out of his holy and just nature; and for this reason they are more steady and uniform, and more terrible, than if they were emotions, or as we say, passions. Nor can we rightly regard the seventy of the judgments which God has so often executed upon sin without standing in awe of him, "as a consuming fire" to the ungodly.
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O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your wrath.
God is a righteous judge, And a God who has indignation every day.
"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger,