10 Bible verses about controlling your anger

Ephesians 4:26 – “Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.”

  1. Proverbs 16:32 – “Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:9 – “Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.”
  3. Colossians 3:8 – “But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”
  4. Proverbs 29:11 – “A fool gives full vent to anger, but a wise person holds it back.”
  5. James 1:19-20 – “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”
  6. Proverbs 15:1 – “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
  7. Psalm 37:8 – “Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.”
  8. Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 – “Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.”
  9. Proverbs 22:24-25 – “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.”




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