12 Bible Verses about Controlling Anger

Be angry, and yet do not sin: let not the sun go down on your wrath,

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

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

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

and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Be angry, and yet do not sin: let not the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.

If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Do not speak evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one law-giver that is able to save, and to destroy: who are you that judge an other?

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions: and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils,