Bible Verses About Anger: General references

11¶ The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

12¶ The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

24¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

3¶ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

8¶ Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

9¶ If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

19¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.