Bible Verses About Fits of Anger

“Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.”

“But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”

“A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.”

“He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.”

“Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.”

“For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.”

“A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.”

“Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.”

“As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach — not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.”

“A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.”

“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger, and do not give the devil a foothold.”

“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.”

“At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.”

“A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.”

“God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.”

“Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.”

“When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

“Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence. May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim. Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.”

“Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret— it can only bring harm.”

“An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.”