Psalm 37:8
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Proverbs 14:29
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29 Whoever is (A)slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Proverbs 16:32
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32 (A)Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Ephesians 4:31
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31 (A)Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
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Ephesians 4:26
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26 (A)Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
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James 3:14-18
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14 But if you have bitter (A)jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not (B)the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, (C)demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But (D)the wisdom from above is first pure, then (E)peaceable, gentle, open to reason, (F)full of mercy and good fruits, (G)impartial and (H)sincere. 18 And (I)a harvest of righteousness (J)is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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James 1:19-20
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person (B)be quick to hear, (C)slow to speak, (D)slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
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Colossians 3:8
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8 But now (A)you must put them all away: (B)anger, wrath, malice, (C)slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
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Job 5:2
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2 Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
Luke 9:54-55
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54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell (A)fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”[a] 55 But he turned and rebuked them.[b]
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Jonah 4:1
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Jonah's Anger and the Lord's Compassion
4 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly,[a] and (A)he was angry.
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- Jonah 4:1 Hebrew it was exceedingly evil to Jonah
Jonah 4:9
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9 But God said to Jonah, (A)“Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
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Psalm 31:22
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22 I had said in my (A)alarm,[a]
“I am (B)cut off from (C)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.
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- Psalm 31:22 Or in my haste
Job 18:4
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4 You who (A)tear yourself in your anger,
shall the earth be forsaken for you,
or (B)the rock be removed out of its place?
Jeremiah 20:14-15
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14 (A)Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
(B)making him very glad.
Psalm 116:11
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Psalm 73:15
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15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed (A)the generation of your children.
1 Samuel 25:21-23
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21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, (A)so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has (B)returned me evil for good. 22 (C)God do so to the enemies of David[a] and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”
23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried (D)and got down from the donkey (E)and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.
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- 1 Samuel 25:22 Septuagint to David
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