Psalms 37:8

Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.

Cross References (17)

  • Proverbs 14:29 (29)

    A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

  • Proverbs 16:32 (24)

    He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city

  • James 1:19–20 (21)

    My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

  • Ephesians 4:31 (17)

    Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

  • Job 5:2 (13)

    For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

  • Ephesians 4:26 (13)

    “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

  • James 3:14–18 (13)

    But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

  • Colossians 3:8 (11)

    But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

  • Job 18:4 (6)

    You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

  • Jonah 4:1 (5)

    Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

  • 1 Samuel 25:21–23 (4)

    Now David had just said, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs

  • Jonah 4:9 (3)

    Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

  • Psalms 31:22 (3)

    In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

  • Psalms 73:15 (3)

    If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

  • Luke 9:54–55 (3)

    When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume t

  • Jeremiah 20:14–15 (2)

    Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

  • Psalms 116:11 (2)

    In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”