GOD is angry with Sin

God Is Angry With Sin

 

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

James 1:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Mark 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

2 Kings 17:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Romans 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

Exodus 34:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Nahum 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 14:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless. A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Psalm 145:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 4:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

James 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

James 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Romans 5:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

John 3:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 5:21-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Matthew 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Psalm 103:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 42:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Psalm 37:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

1 Kings 11:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice

Numbers 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Genesis 4:5-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Revelation 19:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

Revelation 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

2 Peter 2:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Hebrews 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

Hebrews 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’

Titus 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Colossians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Colossians 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 4:26-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ...

Galatians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Galatians 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

Romans 12:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

John 16:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 2:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Matthew 21:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.