Wrath
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Wrath (503 Occurrences)
... impersonally. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WRATH, (ANGER). rath ... 16). 1. Divine
Wrath: Wrath is used with reference to both God and man. When ...
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Aroused (29 Occurrences)
... Exodus 22:24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and
your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (See NIV). ...
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Spite (28 Occurrences)
... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ... For
all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ...
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Vent (8 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Job 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness
of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. (See NIV). ...
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Burns (34 Occurrences)
... get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about
the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the ...
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Appeased (11 Occurrences)
... Esther 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he
remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. ...
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Subside (5 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward
them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh ...
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Storm-wind (19 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 66:15 For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like
the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion ...
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Vessels (210 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known,
endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, (WEB KJV ASV ...
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Satisfy (32 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward
them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Jehovah ...
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Bible Concordance
Wrath (503 Occurrences)

Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 3:7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 4:28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Luke 6:11 But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.
(BBE)

Luke 21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 3:36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 5:17 And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,
(DBY)

Acts 7:54 Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.
(BBE)

Acts 19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
(KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 2:5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 2:8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 12:19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 13:4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 13:5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Corinthians 7:11 For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.
(BBE)

Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
(KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Ephesians 2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 4:26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 6:4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Colossians 3:6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 3:8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Thessalonians 2:16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS)

1 Timothy 3:3 Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
(BBE)

Titus 1:7 For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
(BBE)

Hebrews 3:11 as I swore in my wrath,'They will not enter into my rest.'"
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Hebrews 10:27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
(BBE)

Hebrews 11:27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

James 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

James 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 6:16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 6:17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Revelation 14:8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Revelation 14:10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 14:19 The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 15:1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God's wrath is finished.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 15:7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 18:3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Revelation 19:15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 27:44 And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;
(BBE)

Genesis 32:20 And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.
(BBE)

Genesis 39:19 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.
(BBE)

Genesis 49:6 Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.
(BBE)

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 11:8 And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath.
(BBE)

Exodus 15:7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 22:24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)

Exodus 32:10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)

Exodus 32:11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying,'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)

Exodus 32:19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.
(BBE)

Exodus 34:6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
(BBE)

Leviticus 10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 17:10 And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.
(BBE)

Leviticus 26:28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
(WEB ASV BBE NAS)

Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:10 And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.
(BBE)

Numbers 11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS)

Numbers 12:9 And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.
(BBE)

Numbers 16:22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?
(BBE)

Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 18:5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 22:22 But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him.
(BBE)

Numbers 22:27 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.
(BBE)

Numbers 24:10 Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.
(BBE)

Numbers 25:3 So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.
(BBE)

Numbers 25:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.
(BBE)

Numbers 25:11 "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Numbers 32:10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,
(BBE)

Numbers 32:14 And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 4:25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 6:15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 7:4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 9:8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:20 And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 9:22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 11:17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS)

Deuteronomy 13:17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 19:6 For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 29:20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.
(BBE NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 29:27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:
(BBE)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.

2. (n.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.

3. (a.) See Wroth.

4. (v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
WRATH, (ANGER)

rath, roth, rath ('aph, from 'anaph, "to snort," "to be angry"; orge, thumos, orgizomai): Designates various degrees of feeling, such as sadness (Psalm 85:4), a frown or turning away of the face in grief or anger (2 Chronicles 26:19 Jeremiah 3:12), indignation (Psalm 38:3), bitterness (Judges 18:25), fury (Esther 1:12), full of anger (Genesis 4:5 John 7:23), snorting mad (Genesis 27:45 Matthew 2:16).

1. Divine Wrath:

Wrath is used with reference to both God and man. When used of God it is to be understood that there is the complete absence of that caprice and unethical quality so prominent in the anger attributed to the gods of the heathen and to man. The divine wrath is to be regarded as the natural expression of the divine nature, which is absolute holiness, manifesting itself against the willful, high-handed, deliberate, inexcusable sin and iniquity of mankind. God's wrath is always regarded in the Scripture as the just, proper, and natural expression of His holiness and righteousness which must always, under all circumstances, and at all costs be maintained. It is therefore a righteous indignation and compatible with the holy and righteous nature of God (Numbers 11:1-10 Deuteronomy 29:27 2 Samuel 6:7 Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 42:25 Jeremiah 44:6 Psalm 79:6). The element of love and compassion is always closely connected with God's anger; if we rightly estimate the divine anger we must unhesitatingly pronounce it to be but the expression and measure of that love (compare Jeremiah 10:24 Ezekiel 23 Amos 3:2).

2. Human Wrath:

Wrath, when used of man, is the exhibition of an enraged sinful nature and is therefore always inexcusable (Genesis 4:5, 6; Genesis 49:7 Proverbs 19:19 Job 5:2 Luke 4:28 2 Corinthians 12:10 Galatians 5:20 Ephesians 4:31 Colossians 3:8). It is for this reason that man is forbidden to allow anger to display itself in his life. He is not to "give place unto wrath" (Romans 12:19 margin), nor must he allow "the sun to go down upon his wrath" (Ephesians 4:26). He must not be angry with his brother (Matthew 5:22), but seek agreement with him lest the judgment that will necessarily fall upon the wrathful be meted out to him (Matthew 5:25, 26). Particularly is the manifestation of an angry spirit prohibited in the training and bringing up of a family (Ephesians 6:4 Colossians 3:19). Anger, at all times, is prohibited (Numbers 18:5 Psalm 37:8 Romans 12:19 Galatians 5:19 Ephesians 4:26 James 1:19, 20).

3. Divine Wrath Consistent with Love:

Wrath or anger, as pertaining to God, is very much more prominent in the Old Testament than in the New Testament. This is to be accounted for probably because the New Testament magnifies the grace and love of God as contrasted with His wrath; at least love is more prominent than wrath in the revelation and teaching of Christ and His apostles. Nevertheless, it must not be thought that the element of wrath, as a quality of the divine nature, is by any means overlooked in the New Testament because of the prominent place there given to love. On the contrary, the wrath of God is intensified because of the more wonderful manifestation of His grace, mercy and love in the gift of His Son Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the world. God is not love only: He is also righteous; yea, "Our God is a consuming fire" (Hebrews 12:29); "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews 10:31). No effeminate, sentimental view of the Fatherhood of God or of His mercy and loving-kindness can exclude the manifestation of His just, righteous and holy anger against sin and the sinner because of his transgression (1 Peter 1:17 Hebrews 10:29). One thing only can save the sinner from the outpouring of God's righteous anger against sin in the day of visitation, namely, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as the divinely-appointed Redeemer of the world (John 3:36 Romans 1:16-18; Romans 5:9). Nor should the sinner think that the postponement or the omission (or seeming omission) of the visitation of God's wrath against sin in the present means the total abolition of it in the future. Postponement is not abolition; indeed, the sinner, who continually rejects Jesus Christ and the salvation which God has provided in Him, is simply `treasuring up' wrath for himself "in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who (one day) will render to every man according to his works:.... to them that.... obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness,.... wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil" (Romans 2:5-9 2 Peter 3:10 Revelation 6:16, 17; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 19:15).

See RETRIBUTION, 5.

God's anger while slow, and not easily aroused (Psalm 103:8 Isaiah 48:9 Jonah 4:2 Nahum 1:3), is to be dreaded (Psalm 2:12; Psalm 76:7; Psalm 90:11 Matthew 10:28); is not to be provoked (Jeremiah 7:19 1 Corinthians 10:22); when visited, in the present life, should be borne with submission (2 Samuel 24:17 Lamentations 3:39, 43 Micah 7:9); prayer should be earnestly made for deliverance from it (Psalm 39:10; Psalm 80:4 Daniel 9:16 Habakkuk 3:2); it should be the means of leading man to repentance (Isaiah 42:24, 25 Jeremiah 4:8).

Certain specific things are said especially to arouse God's anger: continual provocation (Numbers 32:14), unbelief (Psalm 78:21, 22 Hebrews 3:18, 19), impenitence (Isaiah 9:13, 14 Romans 2:5), apostasy (Hebrews 10:26, 27), idolatry (Deuteronomy 32:19, 20, 22 2 Kings 22:17 Jeremiah 44:3), sin in God's people (Psalm 89:30-32 Isaiah 47:6), and it is manifested especially against opponents of the gospel of Jesus Christ (Psalm 2:2, 3, 5 1 Thessalonians 2:16).

4. Righteous and Unrighteous Anger:

There is a sense, however, in which anger is the duty of man; he is to "hate evil" (Psalm 97:10). It is not enough that God's people should love righteousness, they must also be angry with sin (not the sinner). A man who is incapable of being angry at sin is at the same time thereby adjudged to be incapable of having a real love for righteousness. So there is a sense in which a man may be said to "be.... angry, and sin not" (Ephesians 4:26). Anger at the sin and unrighteousness of men, and because their sin is grievous to God, may be called a "righteous indignation." Such an indignation is attributed to Jesus when it is said that He "looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart" (Mark 3:5). When anger arises because of this condition, it is sinless, but when anger arises because of wounded or aggrieved personality or feelings, it is sinful and punishable. Anger, while very likely to become sinful, is not really sinful in itself.

We have illustrations in the Scriptures of wrath or anger that is justifiable: Jesus (Mark 3:5), Jacob (Genesis 31:36), Moses (Exodus 11:8; Exodus 32:19 Leviticus 10:16 Numbers 16:15), Nehemiah (Nehemiah 5:6; Nehemiah 13:17, 25); of sinful anger: Cain (Genesis 4:5, 6), Esau (Genesis 27:45), Moses (Numbers 20:10, 11), Balaam (Numbers 22:27), Saul (1 Samuel 20:30), Ahab (1 Kings 21:4), Naaman (2 Kings 5:11), Herod (Matthew 2:16), the Jews (Luke 4:28), the high priest (Acts 5:17; Acts 7:54).

William Evans

Greek
3709. orge -- impulse, wrath
... impulse, wrath. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: orge Phonetic Spelling:
(or-gay') Short Definition: anger, wrath, passion Definition: anger ...
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2372. thumos -- passion
... passion. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: thumos Phonetic Spelling:
(thoo-mos') Short Definition: an outburst of passion, wrath Definition: an ...
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3950. parorgismos -- irritation
... Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: parorgismos Phonetic Spelling:
(par-org-is-mos') Short Definition: exasperation, wrath Definition: exasperation ...
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2435. hilasterion -- propitiatory
... hilasterion Phonetic Spelling: (hil-as-tay'-ree-on) Short Definition: a sin offering,
covering Definition: (a) a sin offering, by which the wrath of the deity ...
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2433. hilaskomai -- to be propitious, make propitiation for
... Cognate: 2433 (akin to 2434 , "propitiation, appeasement/satisfaction of divine
wrath on sin") -- properly, to extend , showing mercy by satisfying (literally ...
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3949. parorgizo -- to provoke to anger
... anger, provoke to wrath. From para and orgizo; to anger alongside, ie Enrage --
anger, provoke to wrath. see GREEK para. see GREEK orgizo. ...
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3570. nuni -- now
... Col 3:8: "But (3570 ) you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice,
slander, and abusive speech from your mouth" (). 3570 ...
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4632. skeuos -- a vessel, implement, pl. goods
... skyoo'-os) Short Definition: a vessel to contain liquid, utensil, tackle Definition:
a vessel to contain liquid; a vessel of mercy or wrath; any instrument by ...
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517. aoratos -- invisible
... Heb 11:27: "By (4102 ) he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he
endured, as seeing Him who is (517 )" (). Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. ...
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Topical Bible Verses
Romans 13:4
For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath on him that does evil.
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Matthew 5:38-39
You have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
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Exodus 22:2-3
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
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Matthew 26:52-54
Then said Jesus to him, Put up again your sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
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1 Timothy 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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Strong's Hebrew
7109. qetsaph -- wrath
... 7108, 7109. qetsaph. 7110 . wrath. Transliteration: qetsaph Phonetic Spelling:
(kets-af') Short Definition: wrath. Word Origin (Aramaic ...
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7110a. qetseph -- wrath
... 7110, 7110a. qetseph. 7110b . wrath. Transliteration: qetseph Short
Definition: wrath. Word Origin from qatsaph Definition wrath ...
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7110. qetseph -- wrath
... 7109, 7110. qetseph. 7110a . wrath. Transliteration: qetseph Phonetic Spelling:
(keh'-tsef) Short Definition: foam. foam, indignation, sore, wrath ...
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290. Achimaats -- "my brother is wrath," two Israelites
... 289, 290. Achimaats. 291 . "my brother is wrath," two Israelites. Transliteration:
Achimaats Phonetic Spelling: (akh-ee-mah'-ats) Short Definition: Ahimaaz ...
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7107. qatsaph -- to be angry
... Word Usage angry (21), became angry (1), became...angry (1), become wrathful (1),
enraged (1), furious (3), provoked (1), provoked him to wrath (1), provoked ...
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2534. chemah -- heat, rage
... 2533, 2534. chemah. 2535 . heat, rage. Transliteration: chemah Phonetic
Spelling: (khay-maw') Short Definition: wrath. Word Origin ...
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5674b. abar -- to be arrogant, become angry
... 5674a, 5674b. abar. 5675 . to be arrogant, become angry. Transliteration:
abar Short Definition: wrath. Word Origin denominative ...
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5678. ebrah -- overflow, arrogance, fury
... ebrah. 5679 . overflow, arrogance, fury. Transliteration: ebrah Phonetic Spelling:
(eb-raw') Short Definition: wrath. Word Origin fem. ... anger, rage, wrath. ...
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639. aph -- a nostril, nose, face, anger
... 1), face (15), faces (4), forbearance* (1), ground (1), nose (10), noses (1), nostril
(1), nostrils (13), quick-tempered* (1), snout (1), wrath (8), wrath with ...
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7267. rogez -- agitation, excitement, raging
... Word Origin from ragaz Definition agitation, excitement, raging NASB Word Usage
rage (1), raging (1), thunder (1), turmoil (3), wrath (1). ...
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Library

The Wrath of God
... 3. THE LAW AND SIN 3.3 The Wrath of God. What does every sin deserve? God's wrath
and curse, both in this life, and in that which is to come. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/3 3 the wrath of god.htm

The Wrath-Denouncing Angel.
... The Wrath-denouncing Angel. ... They thus acknowledged themselves the servants of him
whom they obeyed, and subjected themselves to the wrath of God. ...
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Naaman's Wrath
... THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS NAAMAN'S WRATH. 'And Elisha sent a messenger unto
Naaman, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and ...
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The Wrath of Love
... THE WRATH OF LOVE. ... The storms come up, they know not when or how: but they are not
the sport of a blind chance; they are not the victims of the wrath of God. ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xxxix the wrath of.htm

The Wrath to Come
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CCCLXVI THE WRATH TO COME. See
[169]Note. When first GOD stirr'd me, and the Church's word. ...
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We Speak, Indeed, of the "Wrath" of God. ...
... Chapter LXXII. We speak, indeed, of the "wrath" of God.� We speak, indeed,
of the "wrath" of God. We do not, however, assert that ...
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The Wrath of God Abides Upon those who Believe not this Gospel. .. ...
... First Head of Doctrine. Divine Election and Reprobation Article 4 The wrath
of God abides upon those who believe not this gospel.� ...
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Divine Wrath and Mercy, Nahum 1, 2 &C.
... Book 1. Hymn 1:42. Divine wrath and mercy, Nahum 1, 2 &c. ... 3 Those heaps of wrath
by slow degrees Are forced into a flame, But kindled, O how fierce they blaze! ...
/.../watts/hymns and spiritual songs/hymn 1 42 divine wrath and.htm

Psalm 9:1. First Part. Wrath and Mercy from the Judgment-Seat.
... THE Psalms of David, In Metre. Psalm 9:1. First Part. Wrath and mercy from
the judgment-seat. 1 With my whole heart I'll raise my ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/watts/the psalms of david/psalm 9 1 first part wrath.htm

Psalm 9 Part 1 Wrath and Mercy from the Judgment-Seat.
... THE PSALMS OF DAVID PSALM 9 PART 1 Wrath and mercy from the judgment-seat.
vv.1-4,9-11 CM. Wrath and mercy from the judgment-seat. ...
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