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 1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Eccl 7:9Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
• Prov 14:29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
• Prov 19:11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
• Rom 12:19–21Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
• Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
• Exod 32:21–22Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
• Neh 5:6–13I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
• Num 20:10–13Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
• Mark 3:5When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
• Num 20:24“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
• Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
• Mark 10:14But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
• Ps 106:30–33Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
• Exod 11:8All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you”; and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
• Deut 24:15In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
• Num 25:7–11When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

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