Ecclesiastes 7:9
"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
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- James 1:19
"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:17
"He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 16:32
"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 4:26
"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 26:23
"Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross."
Read in chapter → - Esther 3:5
"And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 34:30
"And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 34:7
"And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 25:21
"Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 19:43
"And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel."
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