Remaining Chapters
8Cease from anger, and forsake{H8798)} wrath: fret{H8691)} not thyself in any wise to do evil{H8687)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: …
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-20)In these verses we have, I. The foregoing precepts inculcated; for we are so apt to disquiet ourselves with needless fruitless discontents and distrusts that it is necessary there should be precept upon precept, and line upon line, to suppress them and arm us against them. 1. Let us compose ourselves by believing in God: “ Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him (Ps. 37:7), that is, be well r…
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