12 Bible Verses about Controlling Anger

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation:

for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil.

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, holiness; against such things there is no law.

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation: neither give place to the devil.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you, the one judging your neighbor.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil. But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife. But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil,