Bible Verses About Controlling Your Anger
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for controlling your anger, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,368 votes, led by James 1:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Controlling Your Anger
James 1:19-20154 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 15:1133 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Ephesians 4:26-27124 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Romans 12:17-21105 votes
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Proverbs 14:2998 votes
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
James 1:2685 votes
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.
Ephesians 4:3267 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:3166 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Proverbs 16:3258 votes
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Luke 6:3145 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Colossians 3:12-1439 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Ephesians 4:31-3238 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Romans 12:236 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Colossians 3:5-1035 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Romans 2:1-433 votes
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Psalms 37:8-930 votes
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Proverbs 10:1224 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Romans 15:1-217 votes
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Mark 9:3515 votes
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Luke 6:32-4215 votes
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Philippians 2:2-815 votes
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
James 4:115 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ephesians 4:1-614 votes
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
James 4:11-1214 votes
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.
Jeremiah 7:1-1111 votes
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
What does the Bible say about controlling your anger?
Readers most often cite James 1:19-20 on the subject of controlling your anger. Across 1,368 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:1, Ephesians 4:26-27, Romans 12:17-21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.