Releasing Anger and Grudges

  • Ephesians 4:31-32 - "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

  • Matthew 6:14-15 - "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

  • Proverbs 15:1 - "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."

  • James 1:19-20 - "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."

  • Colossians 3:8 - "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth."

  • Proverbs 19:11 - "The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression."

  • Romans 12:19 - "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."

  • Leviticus 19:18 - "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD."

  • Matthew 5:22 - "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."

  • Ephesians 4:26-27 - "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil."

  • Proverbs 14:29 - "He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly."

  • 1 Peter 2:23 - "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:"

  • Luke 6:37 - "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:"

  • Proverbs 22:24-25 - "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul."

  • Psalm 37:8 - "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil."

  • Matthew 18:21-22 - "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven."

  • Proverbs 29:22 - "An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression."

  • Titus 3:2 - "To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men."

  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 - "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;"

  • Philippians 2:14-15 - "Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;"

  • Proverbs 17:9 - "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends."

  • Galatians 5:22-23 - "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

  • Proverbs 10:12 - "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."

  • Matthew 5:9 - "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

  • Proverbs 15:18 - "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife."

  • Proverbs 20:3 - "It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling."

  • Luke 17:3-4 - "Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him."

  • Colossians 3:13 - "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."

  • James 3:17-18 - "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."

  • 1 John 1:9 - "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."