Anger and Murder

“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.

You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk—indeed all malice.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.

For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

“As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

Living Out the Message

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!”

that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.

The Final Plagues

Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues (they are final because in them God’s anger is completed).