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
• For his anger is but for a moment,
  and his favor is for a lifetime.
  Weeping may tarry for the night,
  but joy comes with the morning.
  Psalm 30:5lovepatiencesadness
• Return, faithless Israel,
  declares the Lord.
  I will not look on you in anger,
  for I am merciful,
  declares the Lord;
  I will not be angry forever.
  Jeremiah 3:12bmercyangerforgiveness
• Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
  and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatienceself-control
• Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.
  James 1:19speakinglisteninganger
• Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
  but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
  who do his just commands;
  seek righteousness; seek humility;
  perhaps you may be hidden
  on the day of the anger of the Lord.
  Zephaniah 2:3seekingprotectionhumility
• The Lord is slow to anger and 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
• And rend your hearts and not your garments.
  Return to the Lord your God,
  for he is gracious and merciful,
  slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
  and he relents over disaster.
  Joel 2:13heartgracelove
• A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
  but a wise man quietly holds it back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• 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 transgression
  for the remnant of his inheritance?
  He does not retain his anger forever,
  because he delights in steadfast love.
  Micah 7:18sinmercyforgiveness
• The vexation of a fool is known at once,
  but the prudent ignores an insult.
  Proverbs 12:16angerself-controlwisdom
• Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality
• You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
  Exodus 22:22-24widowsorphans
• Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceanger
• Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
  Hebrews 13:1-2lovegentlenessneighbor
• The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
  but the simple go on and suffer for it.
  Proverbs 27:12mindsafetyprotection
• Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
  Romans 8:35lovesufferingpersecution
• So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
  Ephesians 2:19-20Jesuskingdomprophecy
• And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths 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 behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
  Luke 13:10-17miracleshealingsabbath