World’s 16 Best Bible Verses To Read When You’re Angry

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.