- Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.
- Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
- You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
- Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses. - A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. - You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly. - A fool gives full vent to anger,
but the wise quietly holds it back. - And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
- Fools show their anger at once,
but the prudent ignore an insult. - It is honorable to refrain from strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel. - By insolence the heedless make strife,
but wisdom is with those who take advice. - Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- Return, faithless Israel,
says the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for I am merciful,
says the Lord;
I will not be angry forever. - Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the Lord. Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.Next verse!With image