Popular Bible Verses about Anger

Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord. AMP

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. KJV

When angry, do not sin; do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or indignation) last until the sun goes down. AMP

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: KJV

Now while Paul was awaiting them at Athens, his spirit was grieved and roused to anger as he saw that the city was full of idols. AMP

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. KJV

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord! the Lord! a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, AMP

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, KJV

Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will, or baseness of any kind). AMP

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: KJV

A SOFT answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Prov. 25:15.] AMP

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. KJV

You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [I John 3:15.] AMP

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. KJV

It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of disobedience (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will) AMP

For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: KJV

But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips! AMP

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. KJV

I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger or quarreling or resentment or doubt [in their minds], lifting up holy hands. AMP

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. KJV