wrath
Orge denotes God’s punitive judgment against disobedience, and also anger that people are warned to set aside or restrain.
The dominant use concerns God’s punitive response to disobedience, depicted as coming, revealed, stored up, or escaped. A smaller group of verses concerns human anger, either displayed in response to hardened hearts or named among dispositions to reject; several Romans passages frame it as the consequence or sanction associated with evil and transgression.
Senses in use
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God’s punitive judgment · dominant
In Romans 1:18 the APB renders God’s response as revealed from heaven against ungodliness and unrighteousness, while Colossians 3:6 says it is coming upon the sons of disobedience. Romans 2:5 places it in the day of revelation of God’s justice, and Revelation 11:18 joins its arrival with judgment of the dead and destruction of those who destroy the earth.
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Human anger to restrain or remove · common
Mark 3:5 places the genitive singular form with looking around at people whose hearts were hard. In James 1:19 the APB renders the clause as being slow to anger, and James 1:20 says that a man’s anger does not work God’s righteousness; Ephesians 4:31 and Colossians 3:8 list it among things to put away.
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Punitive consequence for evil · occasional
Romans 13:4 uses the accusative singular form in a clause about an authority bearing the sword as an avenger against the one doing evil, and Romans 13:5 gives it as a reason for being subject. Romans 4:15 similarly says that the law brings about this result, in contrast to the absence of transgression where there is no law.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB usually renders the term with “wrath,” especially in clauses about God’s response, coming judgment, or rescue from it. In contexts concerning people’s conduct it renders “anger”; These renderings confirm the clauses’ overall presentation rather than isolate every lexical contribution.