anger and forgiveness

²⁶“Be angry, but do not be willing to sin.” Do not let the sun set over your anger. ²⁷Provide no place for the devil.

¹⁹You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger. ²⁰For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God.

³²And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

³¹Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and outcry and blasphemy be taken away from you, along with all malice. ³²And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. ⁷And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

¹A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.

⁸Cease from wrath and leave behind rage. Do not choose to imitate the malicious.

³²A patient man is better than a strong one. And whoever rules his soul is better than one who assaults cities.

¹⁵But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother.

³¹Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and outcry and blasphemy be taken away from you, along with all malice.

²⁵And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your sins.

²¹Then Peter, drawing near to him, said: “Lord, how many times shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Even seven times?” ²²Jesus said to him: “I do not say to you, even seven times, but even seventy times seven times.

¹³Support one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive one another. For just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also must you do.

²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, ²³and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

⁷And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

²⁶“Be angry, but do not be willing to sin.” Do not let the sun set over your anger.

¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

²²A short-tempered man provokes quarrels. And whoever is easily angered is more likely to sin.

¹And, brothers, if a man has been overtaken by any offense, you who are spiritual should instruct someone like this with a spirit of leniency, considering that you yourselves might also be tempted. ²Carry one another’s burdens, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ. ³For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴So let each one prove his own work. And in this way, he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another. ⁵For each one shall carry his own burden. ⁶And let him who is being taught the Word discuss it with him who is teaching it to him, in every good way.

³¹But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.