Anger

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 25:28 OT

  Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

• Proverbs 27:3 OT

  A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

• Proverbs 27:4 OT

  Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

• Proverbs 29:8 OT

  Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

• Proverbs 29:9 OT

  If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

• Proverbs 29:22 OT

  An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

• Proverbs 30:33 OT

  For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

• Ecclesiastes 7:9 OT

  Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

• Hosea 7:16 OT

  They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

• Amos 1:11 OT

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

• Jonah 4:4 OT

  Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

• Matthew 5:22 NT

  But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of…

• 2 Corinthians 12:20 NT

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander,…

• Galatians 5:19-21 NT

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness,…

• Ephesians 4:26 NT

  “Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

• Ephesians 4:31 NT

  Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

• Colossians 3:8 NT

  but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

• 1 Timothy 2:8 NT

  I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

• Titus 1:7 NT

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• James 1:19 NT

  So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

• James 1:20 NT

  for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

• Genesis 4:5-8 OT

  but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t…

• Genesis 49:5-7 OT

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. Cursed…

• Exodus 10:11 OT

  Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.