Bible Verses About Fits of Anger
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for fits of anger, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 813 votes, led by Galatians 5:19-21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Fits of Anger
Galatians 5:19-2157 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 4:2654 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ecclesiastes 7:949 votes
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Proverbs 15:146 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
James 1:1941 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:2034 votes
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 1:19-2031 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 15:1829 votes
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Colossians 3:828 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Galatians 5:2027 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
1 Timothy 2:825 votes
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Proverbs 16:3224 votes
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 22:2423 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs 14:2920 votes
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
2 Corinthians 12:2020 votes
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Ephesians 4:3120 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Proverbs 22:2519 votes
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
John 3:16-1719 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Colossians 3:619 votes
For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Romans 12:1918 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Galatians 5:1918 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 4:2917 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Titus 1:715 votes
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Proverbs 19:1114 votes
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Ephesians 4:26-2714 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
What does the Bible say about fits of anger?
Readers most often cite Galatians 5:19-21 on the subject of fits of anger. Across 813 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:26, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Proverbs 15:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.