Peter's Picks

The Perfect 7-day Diet – Peter’s Picks

‘Angry’

Day 1: James 1:19, 20 – “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.  Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.”

Day 2: Ecclesiastes 7:9 – “Control your temper, for anger labels you a fool.”

Day 3: Proverbs 15:18 – “A hot-tempered person starts fights; a cool-tempered person stops them.”

Day 4: James 4:1, 2 – “What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?  You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.”

Day 5: Proverbs 22:24 – “Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people.”

Day 6: Psalm 37:8 – “Stop being angry! Turn from your rage! Do not lose your temper – it only leads to harm.”

Day 7: Proverbs 14:29 – “People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness.”

** Verses taken from the New Living Translation