Bible Verses About Being Angry
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being angry, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,811 votes, led by Ephesians 4:26-27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Angry
Ephesians 4:26-27339 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
James 1:19-20268 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Psalms 37:8214 votes
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Proverbs 15:1168 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 29:8-18152 votes
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Romans 12:14-13:2106 votes
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Psalms 145:898 votes
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
John 16:3384 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Ecclesiastes 7:961 votes
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Proverbs 21:252 votes
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs 26:2052 votes
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Luke 15:739 votes
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Galatians 5:2039 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
1 Peter 5:1-1439 votes
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Thessalonians 1:924 votes
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Galatians 2:2018 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Ezekiel 18:19-3216 votes
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
Daniel 9:3-11:1416 votes
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Matthew 12:34-4516 votes
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Luke 21:12-2216 votes
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
Genesis 49:5-1014 votes
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Exodus 11:7-13:1714 votes
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exodus 32:19-34:1414 votes
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Leviticus 5:18-1914 votes
And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
Deuteronomy 4:24-6:514 votes
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
What does the Bible say about being angry?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:26-27 on the subject of being angry. Across 2,811 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 1:19-20, Psalms 37:8, Proverbs 15:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.