Ephesians 4:26

Anger itself is not always sin, but it must not lead to sin or be nursed over time. Believers should deal with anger quickly rather than let it fester.

Cross-references · 20

• Jas 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Eccl 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Prov 14:29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Prov 19:11The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
• Rom 12:19–21Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
• Matt 5:22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
• Exod 32:21–22And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
• Neh 5:6–13And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
• Num 20:10–13And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
• Mark 3:5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
• Num 20:24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
• Prov 25:23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
• Mark 10:14But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
• Ps 106:30–33Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
• Exod 11:8And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
• Deut 24:15At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
• Num 25:7–11And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

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