Bible Verses About Anger Management

Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

1 Corinthians 13:5-7
Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; … Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Psalm 37:8
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.

Proverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

James 4:1-2
From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.