20 Bible Verses about Anger Management

Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath; and give not the devil room to ensnare you.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God.

for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God.

But now put away all these also, wrath, animosity, malice, calumny, and filthy discourse out of your mouth.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies? Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but 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 fury, and clamor, and calumny, be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind one to another,

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 to them in like manner.

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

but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels; for the servant of the Lord ought not to wrangle, but to be gentle towards all men, ready to teach, patient under injuries,

Wherefore putting away lying, speak ye every one truth to his neighbor; for we are all members of one society. Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath; and give not the devil room to ensnare you.

In which ye also formerly walked, when ye lived among them. But now put away all these also, wrath, animosity, malice, calumny, and filthy discourse out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his evil practices;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and fury, and clamor, and calumny, be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgiveth you.

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

but I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be liable to the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be obnoxious to the council; but whosoever shall say, "Thou fool," shall be in danger of hell-fire.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain:

that aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, in patience:

and ye fathers, do not irritate your children, least they be discouraged.