19 Bible Verses about Anger Management

Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath: nor give place to the devil.

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

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

but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members? Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not.

Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:

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

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

But foolish and uninstructive disputes avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels. And a servant of the Lord ought not to quarrel; but to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, forbearing,

Wherefore putting away lying, speak truth, every one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath: nor give place to the devil.

in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them: but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice: but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto wrath: for it is written, "Vengeance belongeth to me; I will recompence, saith the Lord." If therefore thine enemy hunger, give him food; if he thirst, give him drink: for so doing, thou shalt heap up coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

but I say unto you, That every man who is angry with his brother without cause, shall be liable to the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrim: but whosever shall say, Thou fool, shall be liable to be cast into hell fire.

A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching;

For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.