Listening and Doing

¹⁹ My dear brothers and sisters,^(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak^(B) and slow to become angry,

²⁶ “In your anger do not sin”^[a]:^(A) Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, ²⁷ and do not give the devil a foothold.^(B)

¹⁹ So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to,

⁹ But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”^(A)

“It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”

⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.^{(A) 6} Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way^(B) to destroy^(C) all Mordecai’s people, the Jews,^(D) throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.