Verse 8

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:29 : 29 He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
  • Jas 3:14-18 : 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • Prov 16:32 : 32 He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
  • Jas 1:19-20 : 19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; 20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
  • Luke 9:54-55 : 54 And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them? 55 But turning round he said sharp words to them.
  • 1 Sam 25:21-23 : 21 Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good. 22 May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living. 23 And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.
  • Job 18:4 : 4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
  • Ps 73:15 : 15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 Though I said in my fear, All men are false.
  • Jer 20:14-15 : 14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me. 15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
  • Jonah 4:1 : 1 But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
  • Jonah 4:9 : 9 And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.