39 Bible Verses about Anger Management
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Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, nor give place to the devil.
Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
The understanding of a person makes him slow to his {anger}, and his glory overlooks offense.
A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife, but he who is slow [to] {anger}, he will calm contention.
A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir {anger}.
But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members? You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.
He who is slow to anger [is] better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city.
All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.
Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;
Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.
Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; [it] only brings evil. For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh-- they will possess [the] land.
[He who is] slow to anger [has] great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; [it] only brings evil.
He who spares his sayings knows knowledge, and a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels. And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,
Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, nor give place to the devil.
in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them. But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, [because you] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,
All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness. Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.
Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to [God's] wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," says the Lord. But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Stupid fool!' will be subject to the council, and whoever says, 'Obstinate fool!' will be subject to fiery hell.
Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,
For it is necessary [for] the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,
A hot-tempered person pays a penalty; if you rescue [him], you will do [it] yet again.
If he says 'Good,' [it will mean] peace for your servant; but if he [is] very angry, know that {he has decided to do me harm}.
Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.
Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, [and] in endurance.
" 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your fellow citizen, so that you do not incur sin {along with} him. You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge [against] {your fellow citizens}; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I [am] Yahweh.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.
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