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 mercy.
  Psalm 103:8gracelovepatience
• For His anger is but for a moment,
  His favor is for life;
  Weeping may endure for a night,
  But joy comes in the morning.
  Psalm 30:5lovepatiencesadness
• ‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord;
  ‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
  For I am merciful,’ says the Lord;
  ‘I will not remain angry forever.’
  Jeremiah 3:12bmercyangerforgiveness
• He who 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
• Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
  Who have upheld His justice.
  Seek righteousness, seek humility.
  It may be that you will be hidden
  In the day of the Lord’s anger.
  Zephaniah 2:3seekingprotectionhumility
• So rend your heart, and not your garments;
  Return to the Lord your God,
  For He is gracious and merciful,
  Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
  And He relents from doing harm.
  Joel 2:13heartgracelove
• The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
  And will not at all acquit the wicked.
  The Lord has His way
  In the whirlwind and in the storm,
  And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
  Nahum 1:3patiencestrengthpunishment
• A fool vents all his feelings,
  But a wise man holds them back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• Who is a God like You,
  Pardoning iniquity
  And passing over the transgression
  of the remnant of His heritage?
  He does not retain His anger forever,
  Because He delights in mercy.
  Micah 7:18sinmercyforgiveness
• He who is slow to wrath has great understanding,
  But he who is impulsive exalts folly.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
  James 1:19speakinglisteninganger
• And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
  Ephesians 6:4lawfamilychildren
• A fool’s wrath is known at once,
  But a prudent man covers shame.
  Proverbs 12:16angerself-controlwisdom
• Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality
• You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
  Exodus 22:22-24widowsorphans
• Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceanger
• The Lord watches over the strangers;
  He relieves the fatherless and widow;
  But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.
  Psalm 146:9protectionorphanswidows
• Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
  Hebrews 13:1-2lovegentlenessneighbor
• Hear my prayer, O Lord,
  And give ear to my cry;
  Do not be silent at my tears;
  For I am a stranger with You,
  A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  Psalm 39:12prayersadnesshumility
• Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone.
  Ephesians 2:19-20Jesuskingdomprophecy
• So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
  Luke 2:6-7Jesuschristmas
• For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
• Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
  Deuteronomy 5:12-14sabbathrest