20 Bible Verses about Anger Management

"Be angry, and sin not;" let not the sun go down upon your wrath; and do not give place to the Devil.

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

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

but now put ye away all these, anger, wrath, malice, evilspeaking, filthy language out of your mouth.

Whence are wars and whence are fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not; ye kill, and earnestly covet, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not;

"Be angry, and sin not;" let not the sun go down upon your wrath;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you, with all malice;

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

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

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

But the foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they gender quarrels; and a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,

Wherefore having put away falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbor; for we are members one of another. "Be angry, and sin not;" let not the sun go down upon your wrath; and do not give place to the Devil.

In which things ye also once walked, when ye lived in them; but now put ye away all these, anger, wrath, malice, evilspeaking, filthy language out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather make room for wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." Therefore, "if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head." Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

But I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the Judges; and whoever shall say to his brother, Simpleton! shall be in danger of the Council; and whoever shall say, Fool! shall be in danger of hellfire.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;

For a bishop must be without reproach, as Gods steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain,

that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.