20 Bible Verses About Emotions: Anger, Grief, Fear, Joy and Peace



  • Just before “Jesus wept,” John uses a Greek verb that comes from a word for snorting with anger (John 11:33).
  • “Be angry and do not sin” is an imperative quoting a psalm; Paul puts a clock on the anger rather than a prohibition.
  • James regulates the speed of anger rather than forbidding it, and objects on practical grounds.
  • Colossians 3:15 uses the verb for an umpire: peace is to decide between competing impulses.
  • Most of the fifteen items in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describe what love does, which is why the list can be followed on a day when feeling is absent.

The Bible’s range of emotion is wider than the verses usually quoted, and it guides feelings more often than it tells anyone to stop having them. Before “Jesus wept” (John 11:35), John says Jesus was “deeply moved in his spirit” (11:33). The Greek verb comes from a word for snorting with anger, and Mark uses it for a stern warning and an angry rebuke (Mark 1:43; 14:5). The twenty verses below are grouped by emotion: anger, grief, fear, joy, peace,…

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