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100 Bible Verses about Hot Tempered

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 238 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 236 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 214 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 210 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.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 160 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 157 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 157 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 156 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 156 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 140 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 137 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 121 helpful votes

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

James 1:19 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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

James 1:19-20 ESV / 117 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.

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 117 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 116 helpful votes

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 113 helpful votes

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 99 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 95 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

James 1:20 ESV / 80 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 79 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 78 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.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 76 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.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 76 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.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 76 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:19 ESV / 60 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.”

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Mark 3:5 ESV / 59 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.

Matthew 5:21-24 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 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. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

James 3:17-18 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Galatians 5:19-20 ESV / 57 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,

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 57 helpful votes

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;

Romans 12:21 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

John 3:36 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 10:14 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 57 helpful votes

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 57 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.

Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 57 helpful votes

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 57 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 57 helpful votes

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 57 helpful votes

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 15:8 ESV / 57 helpful votes

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

Job 2:11 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

Nehemiah 5:6-7 ESV / 57 helpful votes

I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Proverbs 19:19 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 41 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.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Psalm 2:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

James 4:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 4:1-2 ESV / 38 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.

Titus 1:7-8 ESV / 38 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, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 38 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. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:25-32 ESV / 38 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. ...

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 38 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 / 38 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.

Romans 1:18 ESV / 38 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.

Acts 7:57-58 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

John 15:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:12-15 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 13:35 ESV / 38 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Matthew 18:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Matthew 5:25-26 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

Ezekiel 25:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 38 helpful votes

One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 14:16-17 ESV / 38 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless. A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

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