22 Bible Verses About Being Angry

Published

June 15, 2025

Updated

September 25, 2026

Summary

Ephesians 4:26 quotes Psalm 4:4 as the Septuagint renders it, “In your anger do not sin,” and adds that anger should not last past sunset.
In Matthew 5:21-22 Jesus puts anger against a brother or sister under the same judgment as murder; some manuscripts add “without cause”, which the King James Version follows.
Mark 3:5 records Jesus looking around in anger, deeply distressed, at those watching to accuse him of healing on the Sabbath.
Ephesians 4:31, Colossians 3:8 and James 1:19-20 tell believers to put anger away, and James gives the reason that human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.
Proverbs ranks the patient person above a warrior (Proverbs 16:32) and warns against friendship with the hot-tempered (Proverbs 22:24-25).

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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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Bible Gateway. Ephesians 4:26 (NIV), footnote: “Psalm 4:4 (see Septuagint)”. biblegateway.com

Bible Gateway. Psalm 4:4 (NIV), footnote: “Or In your anger (see Septuagint)”. biblegateway.com

Bible Gateway. Matthew 5:22 (NIV), footnotes: “Some manuscripts brother or sister without cause”; Raca, “An Aramaic term of contempt”. biblegateway.com

Bible Gateway. Psalm 7:12 (NIV), footnote: “Or If anyone does not repent, / God”. biblegateway.com

Bible Gateway. Matthew 5:22 (KJV): “whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause”. biblegateway.com

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