A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.


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Exodus 22 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 23 7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 23 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Leviticus 26 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Leviticus 26 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Numbers 11 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Numbers 23 8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Numbers 35 20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
Deuteronomy 1 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy 7 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 9 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
Deuteronomy 13 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 17 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
Deuteronomy 23 9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
Deuteronomy 28 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
Deuteronomy 28 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
Deuteronomy 29 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Deuteronomy 32 35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Deuteronomy 33 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
1 Samuel 24 12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
2 Kings 19 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Nehemiah 4 5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Job 5 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 6 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Job 7 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 9 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Job 9 14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Job 10 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 11 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 14 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 15 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 16 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 17 8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 18 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 19 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Job 19 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job 21 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Job 23 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job 30 21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Job 34 31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job 34 33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job 35 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Job 36 13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Psalms 2 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalms 6 1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 7 6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Psalms 13 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Psalms 17 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.