Meditating on Anger

My boys (Peter 6 and Isaiah 4½) are really getting going on Scripture memorisation, so today I've started a series on anger as part of their training in practical religion. I thought I'd share these verses with you. We all need to meditate on this.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:31,32

“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the Devil.

Ephesians 4:26,27

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

James 1:19,20

And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7:3-5

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…

Romans 1:18

“He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 3:36

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