Being anger

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• Proverbs 15:1

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

• Psalms 37:8

  Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

• Proverbs 29:11

  A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

• James 1:19–20

  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

• Ephesians 4:26

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

• Colossians 3:8

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

• Proverbs 14:29

  He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

• Ephesians 4:26–27

  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

• Proverbs 15:18

  A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

• Ecclesiastes 7:9

  Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

• James 1:20

  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

• James 1:19

  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

• Proverbs 16:32

  He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

• Galatians 5:19–21

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Proverbs 19:11

  The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

• Proverbs 22:24

  Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

• Ephesians 4:31

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

• Proverbs 12:16

  A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

• John 3:16–17

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

• Proverbs 29:22

  An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

• Galatians 5:20

  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

• Proverbs 14:17

  He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.