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100 Bible Verses about Be Slow To Anger

James 1:19-20 ESV / 179 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

James 1:19 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 85 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 84 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Psalm 145:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 103:8 ESV / 69 helpful votes

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 60 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

James 1:20 ESV / 58 helpful votes

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Nahum 1:3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Jonah 4:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes

And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Joel 2:13 ESV / 54 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Mark 3:5 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 45 helpful votes

They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 43 helpful votes

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 39 helpful votes

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Exodus 34:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

James 1:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

John 3:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

James 4:1-2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 1:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

James 1:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Matthew 5:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Numbers 14:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Romans 9:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

2 Kings 17:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 1:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Colossians 3:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 18 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Numbers 11:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Jonah 4:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”

Proverbs 29:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

James 1:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

2 Corinthians 12:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.

Exodus 32:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Ephesians 4:25-32 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. ...

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Proverbs 19:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes

A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

James 4:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

James 1:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

Titus 1:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 4:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Galatians 5:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes

I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

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