12 Bible Verses about Controlling Anger
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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.
Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.
But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.
Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.
But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.
Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against 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 and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice. But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they produce contentions; and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,