Slow To Anger

               Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger - James 1:19. 

                  Our Lord is slow to anger. The Lord is slow to anger - Nahum 1:3. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy - Psalm 145:8. But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness - Psalm 86:15. 

                 As the Lord is slow to anger, He abounds in love, faithfulness and forgiveness. The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin - Exodus 34:6. We will be kind and forgive others when we are slow to anger.  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, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you - Ephesians 4:31, 32. 

                Let us be slow to anger and abound in love, faithfulness and forgiveness like our Lord Jesus Christ. In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold - Ephesians 4:26. Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go, Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul - Proverbs 22:24-25. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil – Psalm 37:8 . Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools - Ecclesiastes 7:9.        

                   He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city -                    Proverbs 16:32.                                                                          

         

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to be slow to anger and abound in love, faithfulness and forgiveness like You. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.