Bible Verses about 'Anger'

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• A soft answer turns away wrath,
  but a harsh word stirs up anger.
  Proverbs 15:1speakinggentlenessanger
• The Lord is merciful and gracious,
  slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
  Psalm 103:8gracelovepatience
• A fool gives full vent to anger,
  but the wise quietly holds it back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• For his anger is but for a moment;
  his favor is for a lifetime.
  Weeping may linger for the night,
  but joy comes with the morning.
  Psalm 30:5lovepatiencesadness
• Return, faithless Israel,
  says the Lord.
  I will not look on you in anger,
  for I am merciful,
  says the Lord;
  I will not be angry forever.
  Jeremiah 3:12bmercyangerforgiveness
• Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
  but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
  and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatienceself-control
• You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
  James 1:19speakinglisteninganger
• Fools show their anger at once,
  but the prudent ignore an insult.
  Proverbs 12:16angerself-controlwisdom
• The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
  and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
  His way is in whirlwind and storm,
  and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  Nahum 1:3patiencestrengthpunishment
• Rend your hearts and not your clothing.
  Return to the Lord, your God,
  for he is gracious and merciful,
  slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
  and relents from punishing.
  Joel 2:13heartgracelove
• And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  Ephesians 6:4lawfamilychildren
• Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
  and passing over the transgression
  of the remnant of your possession?
  He does not retain his anger forever,
  because he delights in showing clemency.
  Micah 7:18sinmercyforgiveness
• Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
  who do his commands;
  seek righteousness, seek humility;
  perhaps you may be hidden
  on the day of the Lord's wrath.
  Zephaniah 2:3seekingprotectionhumility
• Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality
• You shall not abuse any widow or orphan. If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry; my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.
  Exodus 22:22-24widowsorphans
• Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceanger
• The clever see danger and hide;
  but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
  Proverbs 27:12mindsafetyprotection
• The Lord watches over the strangers;
  he upholds the orphan and the widow,
  but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
  Psalm 146:9protectionorphanswidows
• Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
  Hebrews 13:1-2lovegentlenessneighbor
• So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
  Ephesians 2:19-20Jesuskingdomprophecy
• While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
  Luke 2:6-7Jesuschristmas
• Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
  Luke 13:10-17miracleshealingsabbath