A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger allays contention (Prov 15:1,18).
Strife and anger never represent the ways of God, and we are always admonished to do whatever is necessary to avoid promoting such. The footsteps in which believers in Christ are to walk were illustrated for us by His own life and ministry on earth. Jesus is our role model and how we are commanded to respond to wrath, rejection or any kind of mistreatment is spelled out by teaching on a mountainside: “I say to you. love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that spitefully use you and persecute you: that you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans do the same?” (Mt 5:44,45).
