Anger

Question 1

Mt 5:21

Answer 1

You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’

Question 2

Mt 5:22

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Jas 4:1

Answer 3

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Question 4

Jas 4:2

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Jas 4:3

Answer 5

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Question 6

Jas 4:4

Answer 6

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Question 7

Jas 4:5

Answer 7

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

Question 8

Jas 4:6

Answer 8

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Question 9

Pr 25:28

Answer 9

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.