21 Bible Verses about Controlling Anger

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Psalm 37:8

Desist from anger and forsake wrath: thou shalt not be angry only to do evil

Galatians 5:22-23

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

James 1:19-20

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: For man s anger works not the justice of God.

Ephesians 4:26-27

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger: Neither give place to the accuser.

James 4:11-12

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another

Ephesians 4:31-32

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Thou shalt not be hastened in thy spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest in the bosom of fools.

2 Timothy 2:23-24

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

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