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22 Bible Verses About Anger

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  • Psalm 4:4 and Ephesians 4:26 both say “Be angry and do not sin,” and Ephesians adds a limit: “do not let the sun go down on your anger.”
  • Mark 3:5 records Jesus looking at his opponents “with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart,” before he heals a man on the Sabbath.
  • In Matthew 5:22 Jesus gives anger at a brother the same liability to judgment the old saying attached to murder.
  • Proverbs praises the person who is “slow to anger,” the phrase Exodus 34:6 uses of the Lord himself.
  • Romans 12:19 and 1 Peter 2:23 direct someone who has been wronged to leave judgment to God.

The Bible treats anger as something a person can feel without sinning and as something that easily becomes sin. Psalm 4:4 and Ephesians 4:26 both say “Be angry and do not sin,” while Galatians 5:20, Ephesians 4:31 and Colossians 3:8 list anger among the things believers are to put away. Jesus places anger at a brother under the same judgment as murder (Matthew 5:22), and Proverbs praises the person who is “slow to anger” (Proverbs 14:29; 15:18; 16:32; 19:11). The…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The King James Version, Matthew 5:22, “whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause.” biblegateway.com

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