Bible Verses About Anger: General references

People with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.

A king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Don't associate with an angry man; make no hot-tempered man your companion.

If you do, you may learn his ways and find yourself caught in a trap.

Stone is heavy and sand a dead weight, but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.

Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming, but who can stand up to jealousy?

Scoffers can inflame a city, but the wise can calm the fury.

When a wise man argues with a foolish one, he meets anger and ridicule without relief.

And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;

involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue

and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!

Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry;

for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness!