Anger
experienceThe human response to injustice or offense — and Scripture's call to handle it righteously rather than sinfully.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Anger connects to different paths in Scripture:
Anger leads to Repentance and Peace.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”1 Corinthians 10:13 →
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”Genesis 3:6 →
“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.”Luke 15:7 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 19 verses
“Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.”
Read in context →“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
Read in context →“And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:”
Read in context →“The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.”
Read in context →“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”
Read in context →“Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?”
Read in context →“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”
Read in context →“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 context →“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”
Read in context →“But 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.”
Read in context →“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”
Read in context →“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
Read in context →“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
Read in context →“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”
Read in context →“For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;”
Read in context →“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:”
Read in context →“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;”
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