20 Bible Verses about Anger Management

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation: neither give place to the devil.

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members? You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil.

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:

And as you wish that the people may do unto you, do ye unto them even likewise.

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome the evil with the good.

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife. But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil,

Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation: neither give place to the devil.

In which you indeed at one time did walk about, when you lived in them: but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths: lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil. But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it has been written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord. But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome the evil with the good.

but I say unto you that every one being angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever may say to his brother, Thou scoundrel, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever may say, Thou fool, shall be liable unto a hell of fire.

Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

That the elderly men be sober, grave, prudent, sound in faith, in divine love, in patience:

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.