Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin, do not let the sun go down on your wrath..

So it's O.K. to be angry..
God never says a person can not feel anger or express it.
Or other emotions..
Just not to commit sin because of it..
Like destroying your neighbors property because your angry..
Not letting it turn into wrath.
Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger.

Now on the subject of revenge..

Romans 12:18
If possible, from you, seeking peace with all men.
Not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath,
for it has been written,
" Vengence (is) Mine, I will repay , says the Lord."
{Deut 32:35}

Then if (one) hostile to you hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.
{Proverbs 25:21,22}

It goes in line with return no evil for evil..
And love thy neighbor.
Or righteous anger..
But revenge or Judgement belongs to the Lord..
He reads the heart he measures justly..
Us imperfect humans can not do that as..
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a mirror in obscurity, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I will fully know even as I also was fully known.
But now faith, hope, love theses three remain; but the greatest of these is love.

God is love and God is righteous..
Only God can Judge/Condemn in righteousness..
We can discern we can feel angry or pain or express any God given emotion..
But we see through a glass darkly and only God can see through the glass clearly.
Only God can Judge mankind in that way..
We can discern..

And Russ is right in that..
There is such a thing as mistranslation thats why I look the definitions up.
And try to take it back to the orginal Hebrew or Greek..
Plus.. The oldest manuscripts possible..
Compareing manuscripts like the Dead Sea Scrolls in comparision to the Old Testament..
Like the one scripture of the Sons of Israel in the Old Testament compareing it to reading..
The same Scripture as the Sons of God in the Dead Sea Scrolls..
Which actually makes that subject fit in much better with scripture..
Sometimes reading the definitions, going back to the orginal language it was written in and compareing it to the oldest manuscripts found.
Helps..
That can take alot of effert to do though but it's worth doing..
For thoses who want to understand it much better for them.
As compareing and measuring up that has lead to unhappiness there are scriptures in the Bible about that..
Even from brother to brother.
Yes...


Without laws.. The world would be a lawless mess.
Well, in the worlds imperfections' in a way it is..
but it could be worse.. It could be better too.
I hope for better and thats where my faith leads.
To a just world with a just leader and that leader is
the God of the Holy Bible ..
Thats what I believe to be true.

Stay Well
Lynn