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James 1:19
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
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Proverbs 14:17
A quick-tempered person acts foolishly, and one who schemes is hated.
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Ephesians 4:26-27
Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,and don’t give the devil an opportunity.
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Proverbs 16:32
Patience is better than power, and controlling one’s emotions, than capturing a city.
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Proverbs 26:23-26
Smooth lips with an evil heart are like glaze on an earthen vessel.A hateful person disguises himself with his speech and harbors deceit within.When he speaks graciously, don’t believe him, for there are seven detestable things in his heart.Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his evil will be revealed in the assembly.
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2 Samuel 13 22
Absalom didn’t say anything to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon since he disgraced his sister Tamar.
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Genesis 4:5-6
but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.Then the LORD said to Cain,“ Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?
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Esther 3:5-6
When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing down or paying him homage, he was filled with rage.And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, it seemed repugnant to Haman to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.
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2 Samuel 13 28
Now Absalom commanded his young men,“ Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and valiant!”
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Jonah 4:9
Then God asked Jonah,“ Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”“ Yes, it’s right!” he replied.“ I’m angry enough to die!”
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Genesis 34:30-31
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”But they answered,“ Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”
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2 Samuel 19 43
The men of Israel answered the men of Judah,“ We have ten shares in the king, so we have a greater claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Weren’t we the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were harsher than those of the men of Israel.
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1 Samuel 25 21-1 Samuel 25 22
David had just said,“ I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good.May God punish me and do so severely if I let any of his males survive until morning.”
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Genesis 34:7-8
Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.Hamor said to Jacob’s sons,“ My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
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Genesis 34:25-26
On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.
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Mark 6:19
So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,
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Genesis 4:8
Cain said to his brother Abel,“ Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
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Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother,“ What should I ask for?”“ John the Baptist’s head,” she said.
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2 Samuel 13 32
But Jonadab, son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up:“ My lord must not think they have killed all the young men, the king’s sons, because only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this ever since the day Amnon disgraced his sister Tamar.