21 Bible Verses about Controlling Anger

A patient man is better than one strong; and he that can rule himself, is more worth than he that winneth a city.

Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.

For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.

It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure; let not thy jealousy move thee also to do evil.

But the fruit of the spirit is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.

Be ye courteous one to another, and merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you.

Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place unto the backbiter.

If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.

Evil will stirreth up strife; but love covereth the multitude of sins.

Backbite not one another, brethren. He that backbiteth his brother, and he that judgeth his brother, backbiteth the law, and judgeth the law: but and if thou judge the law, thou art not an observer of the law: but a judge. There is one law giver, which is able to save and to destroy. What art thou that judgest another man?

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness. Be ye courteous one to another, and merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you.

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

He is wise and discreet that tempereth his words; and he is a man of understanding, that maketh much of his spirit.

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Foolish and unlearned questions put from thee, remembering that they do but gender strife. But the servant of the Lord must not strive: but must be peaceable unto all men, and apt to teach,