20 Bible Verses about Anger Management

If you do get angry, you must stop sinning in your anger. Do not ever let the sun go down on your anger; stop giving the devil a chance.

You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry; for a man's anger does not produce the uprightness that God requires.

for a man's anger does not produce the uprightness that God requires.

But now you too must once for all put them all aside -- anger, rage, malice, and abusive, filthy talk from your lips.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.

If you do get angry, you must stop sinning in your anger. Do not ever let the sun go down on your anger;

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice.

You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry;

Yes, you must practice dealing with others as you would like them to deal with you.

Stop being conquered by evil, but keep on conquering evil with good.

Always avoid foolish discussions with ignorant men, for you know that they breed quarrels, and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel but must be gentle to everybody; he must be a skillful teacher, and not resentful under injuries.

So you must lay aside falsehood and each of you practice telling the truth to his neighbor, for we are parts of one another. If you do get angry, you must stop sinning in your anger. Do not ever let the sun go down on your anger; stop giving the devil a chance.

You too used to practice these sins, when you used to live that sort of life. But now you too must once for all put them all aside -- anger, rage, malice, and abusive, filthy talk from your lips. Stop lying to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its practices,

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice. You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

Stop taking revenge on one another, beloved, but leave a place for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord." Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head! Stop being conquered by evil, but keep on conquering evil with good.

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

For as God's trustee a pastor must be above reproach, not stubborn or quick-tempered or addicted to strong drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness;

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.