Qualities Needed in Trials

^19 [a]So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, ^(A)slow to speak, ^(B)slow to wrath;

^26 (A)“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, ^27 (B)nor give ^[a]place to the devil.

¹⁹ Therefore Herodias ^[a]held it against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not;

⁹ Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”

And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death!”

⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai ^(A)did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was ^(B)filled with wrath. ⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman ^(C)sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ^(A)ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?”

Yet ^(B)the words of the men of Judah were ^[a]fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.