20 Bible Verses about Anger Management

Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.

for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.

but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth;

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

And as you wish men to do to you, do you also in like manner to them.

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

But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they produce contentions; and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.

In which also you walked formerly when you lived in them; but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth; lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice. But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.

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

But I tell you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, Worthless fellow, shall be subject to the Sanhedrim; and whoever says, You fool, shall be subject to the hell of fire.

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.