Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Anger

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Job 5:2
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.

Job 19:29
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Psalms 37:8
For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 6:34
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.

Proverbs 12:16
[He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

Proverbs 14:17
[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Proverbs 14:29
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Proverbs 15:1
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Proverbs 15:18
The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 16:14
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.

Proverbs 16:29
[He that is] slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Proverbs 16:32
The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Proverbs 17:14
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression. The king's wrath [is] as the roaring of a lion; but his favour [is] as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 19:11-12
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.

Proverbs 19:19
Proud [and] haughty scorner [is] his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Proverbs 21:24
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Proverbs 22:24-25
He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.

Proverbs 25:28
A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both. Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?

Proverbs 27:3-4
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath. [If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.

Proverbs 29:8-9
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Proverbs 29:22
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Proverbs 30:33
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

Jonah 4:4
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Matthew 5:22
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Romans 12:19
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

2 Corinthians 12:20
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Ephesians 4:26
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians 4:31
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

1 Timothy 2:8
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Titus 1:7
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

James 1:19-20