"Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil."
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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.
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it [would be] only to do evil.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.
Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.