Bible Verses About Controlling Anger

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

And be ye kind one to another , tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

Neither give place to the devil.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Lie not one to another , seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: