The Bible allows that a person can be angry without sinning, but it warns how quickly anger turns to sin and tells believers not to let it last. Paul’s command “In your anger do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26) quotes Psalm 4:4, and James says human anger “does not produce the righteousness that God desires” (James 1:19-20). The warnings begin with Cain, told that sin is crouching at his door while he is angry (Genesis 4:6-7), and Jesus puts anger against…
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