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Bible Verses about โ€œbeing angerโ€

The Bible contains 18 verses about being anger across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Galatians 5:21
905 votes

โ€œenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ€

Galatians 5:19
810 votes

โ€œNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ€

Galatians 5:20
786 votes

โ€œidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ€

James 1:19
615 votes

โ€œSo, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;โ€

Ephesians 4:31
535 votes

โ€œLet all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.โ€

James 1:20
462 votes

โ€œfor the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.โ€

Proverbs 15:1
456 votes

โ€œA gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.โ€

Ephesians 4:26
409 votes

โ€œ"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,โ€

Ephesians 4:27
327 votes

โ€œneither give place to the devil.โ€

Colossians 3:8
301 votes

โ€œbut now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.โ€

Proverbs 29:11
243 votes

โ€œA fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.โ€

Psalms 37:8
152 votes

โ€œCease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.โ€

Proverbs 16:32
116 votes

โ€œOne who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.โ€

Proverbs 22:24
116 votes

โ€œDon't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:โ€

Proverbs 15:18
110 votes

โ€œA wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.โ€

Proverbs 19:11
101 votes

โ€œThe discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.โ€

Proverbs 14:29
73 votes

โ€œHe who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.โ€

Ecclesiastes 7:9
68 votes

โ€œDon't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.โ€

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