Deuteronomy 24:15

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

“You shall not steal.

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,