Bible verses about anger, how to handle anger
- Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret—it only causes harm. (Psalm 37:8 NKJV)
- A wise man fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages and is self-confident.
- A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a man of wicked intentions is hated.(Proverbs 14:16,17 NKJV)
- He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, but he who is impulsive exalts folly. (Proverbs 14:29 NKJV)
- A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs 15:1 NKJV)
- He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. (Proverbs16:32 NKJV)
- Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls. (Proverbs 25:28 NKJV)
- Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools. (Ecclesiastes 7:9 NKJV)
- Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”(Romans 12:19 NKJV)
- 26 Be angry, and do not sin, do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil.(Ephesians 4:26,27 NKJV)
- Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.(Ephesians 4:31 NKJV)
- But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. (Colossians 3:8 NKJV)
- 19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.(James 1:19,20 NKJV)
