The Anger of God
131 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
39 sections
- Against: Apostasy
- Against: Idolatry
- Against: Impenitence
- Against: Sin, in Saints
- Against: The Wicked
- Against: Those Who Forsake Him
- Against: Unbelief
- Aggravated by Continual Provocation
- Averted by Christ
- Cannot be Resisted
- Exemplified Against: Aaron and Miriam
- Exemplified Against: Abimelech
- Exemplified Against: Builders of Babel
- Exemplified Against: Cities of the Plain
- Exemplified Against: Egyptians
- Exemplified Against: Enemies of Israel
- Exemplified Against: Five Kings
- Exemplified Against: Israelites
- Exemplified Against: Korah
- Exemplified Against: Men of Bethshemesh
- Exemplified Against: Nadab
- Exemplified Against: Saul
- Exemplified Against: Saul's Family
- Exemplified Against: Sennacherib
- Exemplified Against: The Old World
- Exemplified Against: The Spies
- Exemplified Against: Uzzah
- Extreme, Against Those Who Oppose the Gospel
- Folly of Provoking
- Manifested in Judgments and Afflictions
- Manifested in Terrors
- Removal of, should be Prayed For
- should Lead to Repentance
- Specially Reserved for the Day of Wrath
- Tempered with Mercy to Saints
- The Justice of, not to be Questioned
- To be Born with Submission
- To be Deprecated
- To be Dreaded
Against: Apostasy
- Hebrews 10:26–27 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, …
Against: Idolatry
- Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Deuteronomy 29:27–28 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book. …
- Deuteronomy 32:19–20 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. …
- Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- Joshua 23:16 If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He …
- 2 Kings 22:17 because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’
- Psalm 78:58–59 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. …
- Jeremiah 44:3 because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
Against: Impenitence
- Psalm 7:12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Proverbs 1:30–31 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. …
- Isaiah 9:13–14 But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. …
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Against: Sin, in Saints
- Psalm 89:30–32 If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, …
- Psalm 90:7–9 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. …
- Psalm 99:8 O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
- Psalm 102:9–10 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears …
- Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
Against: The Wicked
- Psalm 7:11 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
- Psalm 21:8–9 Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You. …
- Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
- Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
- Nahum 1:2–3 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies. …
- Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
- Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- Colossians 3:6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Against: Those Who Forsake Him
- Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all …
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Against: Unbelief
- Psalm 78:21–22 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel, …
- Hebrews 3:18–19 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? …
- John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
Aggravated by Continual Provocation
- Numbers 32:14 Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
Averted by Christ
- Luke 2:11 Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!
- Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!”
- Romans 5:9 Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
- 2 Corinthians 5:18–19 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: …
- Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
- Ephesians 2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
- Colossians 1:20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead — Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
Cannot be Resisted
- Job 9:13 God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
- Job 14:13 If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
- Psalm 76:7 You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
- Nahum 1:6 Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
Exemplified Against: Aaron and Miriam
- Numbers 12:9–10 So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed. …
Exemplified Against: Abimelech
- Judges 9:56 In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
Exemplified Against: Builders of Babel
- Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Exemplified Against: Cities of the Plain
- Genesis 19:24–25 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. …
Exemplified Against: Egyptians
- Exodus 7:20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.
- Exodus 8:6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.
- Exodus 9:3 then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field— on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
- Exodus 9:9 It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
- Exodus 9:23 So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
- Exodus 12:29 Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
- Exodus 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
Exemplified Against: Enemies of Israel
- 1 Samuel 5:6 Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- 1 Samuel 7:10 As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was offering up the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
Exemplified Against: Five Kings
- Joshua 10:25 “Do not be afraid or discouraged,” Joshua said. “Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all the enemies you fight.”
Exemplified Against: Israelites
- Exodus 32:35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
- Numbers 11:1 Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
- Numbers 14:40–45 Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.” …
- Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Numbers 25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
- 2 Samuel 24:1 Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
- 2 Samuel 24:15 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
Exemplified Against: Korah
- Numbers 16:31 As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
- Numbers 16:35 And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Exemplified Against: Men of Bethshemesh
- 1 Samuel 6:19 But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
Exemplified Against: Nadab
- Leviticus 10:2 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.
Exemplified Against: Saul
- 1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.
Exemplified Against: Saul's Family
- 2 Samuel 21:1 During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
Exemplified Against: Sennacherib
- 2 Kings 19:28 Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- 2 Kings 19:35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- 2 Kings 19:37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Exemplified Against: The Old World
- Genesis 7:21–23 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished — birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. …
Exemplified Against: The Spies
- Numbers 14:37 those men who had brought out the bad report about the land— were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
Exemplified Against: Uzzah
- 2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.
Extreme, Against Those Who Oppose the Gospel
- Psalm 2:2–3 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: …
- Psalm 2:5 Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
Folly of Provoking
- Jeremiah 7:19 But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
- 1 Corinthians 10:22 Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Manifested in Judgments and Afflictions
- Job 21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
- Psalm 78:49–51 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels. …
- Psalm 90:7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Isaiah 9:19 By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
- Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
- Ezekiel 7:19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, …
- Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Manifested in Terrors
- Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Psalm 76:6–8 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned. …
- Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
- Lamentations 2:20–22 Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? …
Removal of, should be Prayed For
- Psalm 39:10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
- Psalm 79:5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- Psalm 80:4 O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
- Daniel 9:16 O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people …
- Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
should Lead to Repentance
- Isaiah 42:24–25 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law. …
- Jeremiah 4:8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
Specially Reserved for the Day of Wrath
- Zephaniah 1:14–18 The great Day of the LORD is near — near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. …
- Matthew 25:41 Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8 in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- Revelation 6:17 For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
- Revelation 11:18 The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great— and to destroy those who …
- Revelation 19:15 And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Tempered with Mercy to Saints
- Psalm 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Isaiah 26:20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
- Isaiah 54:8 In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- Isaiah 57:15–16 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart …
- Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you …
- Micah 7:11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come — the day for extending your boundary.
The Justice of, not to be Questioned
- Romans 9:18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
- Romans 9:20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
- Romans 9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
To be Born with Submission
- 2 Samuel 24:17 When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
- Lamentations 3:39 Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
- Lamentations 3:43 You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
- Micah 7:9 Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
To be Deprecated
- Exodus 32:11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
- Psalm 6:1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalm 38:1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalm 74:1–2 Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture? …
- Isaiah 64:9 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
To be Dreaded
- Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
- Psalm 76:7 You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
- Psalm 90:11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
- Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Related topics
AngerThe Anger of God is Averted Upon Confession of Sin and RepentanceThe Anger of God is RighteousThe Anger of God is SlowThe Anger of God is Averted from Them That Believe
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.