21 Bible Verses about Controlling Anger

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Be ye angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Fret not thyself, [it tends] only to evil-doing.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

Be ye angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place to the devil.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil. And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

He who spares his words has knowledge, and he who is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels. And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,