5 Bible Verses About Anger

What does the Bible say about anger?

5 Bible Verses About Anger

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
Proverbs 15:18

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:9

26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26-27

19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:19-20

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
Proverbs 22:24