Anger
(Revised
Standard Version - RSV)
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Proverbs 14:29. |
He who is slow to anger has
great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. |
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Proverbs 15:1. |
A soft answer turns away
wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. |
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Proverbs 22:24-25. |
Make no friendship with a
man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and
entangle yourself in a snare. |
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Ecclesiastes 7:9. |
Be not quick to anger, for
anger lodges in the bosom of fools. |
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Matthew 5:22. |
But I say to you that every
one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever
insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, 'You
fool!' shall be liable to the hell of fire. |
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Galatians 5:19-21. |
Now the works of the flesh
are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity,
strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy,
drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things shall not inherit the |
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Ephesians 4:26. |
Be angry but do not sin; do
not let the sun go down on your anger, |
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Ephesians 4:31. |
Let all bitterness and wrath
and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice, |
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Ephesians 6:4. |
Fathers, do not provoke
your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction
of the Lord. |
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Colossians 3:8. |
But now put them all away:
anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. |
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1 Timothy 2:8. |
I desire then that in every
place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; |
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Titus 1:7. |
For a bishop, as God's
steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a
drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, |
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James 1:19-20. |
Know this, my beloved
brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, for
the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. |
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