20 Bible Verses about Anger Management

Be angry, and yet do not sin: let not the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.

So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man produces not the righteousness of God.

For the wrath of man produces not the righteousness of God.

But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members? You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.

Be angry, and yet do not sin: let not the sun go down on your wrath,

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

And as you would that men should do to you, do you also in like manner to them.

Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions: and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils,

For which reason, putting away lying, speak, every one, truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. Be angry, and yet do not sin: let not the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.

in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them. But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds,

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. If, therefore, your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

But I say to you, Whoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be liable to the sentence of the judges. And whoever shall say to his brother, Worthless fellow, shall be liable to the sentence of the Sanhedrin. But who ever shall say, Impious wretch, shall be in danger of hell-fire.

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

For the bishop must be blame less, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means;

that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.