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Wrath Psalm 37:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.Romans 12:19 ESV / 49 helpful votes Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”James 1:20 ESV / 39 helpful votes For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 31 helpful votes Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.Romans 13:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 20 helpful votes Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”Ezekiel 25:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”Colossians 3:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.1 John 4:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 15 helpful votes Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.1 John 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.Romans 2:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.Romans 1:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 11 helpful votes “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. …Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 10 helpful votes Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.Revelation 4:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”1 John 2:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple …Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he
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