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Controlling Your Anger

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James 1:19–20

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Ephesians 4:26–27

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

Romans 12:17–21

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 14:29

Whoso is slow to anger <FI>is<Fi> of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

James 1:26

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

Ephesians 4:32

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Ephesians 4:31

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

Proverbs 16:32

Better <FI>is<Fi> the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

Luke 6:31

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

Colossians 3:12–14

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:31–32

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

Romans 12:2

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Colossians 3:5–10

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry-- — read the full passage →

Romans 2:1–4

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

Psalms 37:8–9

Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

Romans 15:1–2

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; — read the full passage →

James 4:1

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

Philippians 2:2–8

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing, — read the full passage →

Mark 9:35

and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

James 4:11–12

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:1–6

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

Luke 6:32–42

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them; — read the full passage →

Romans 14:1–23

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Mark 12:28–31

And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?' — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 7:1–11

The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:1–26

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

Luke 16:19–21

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

Luke 3:12–14

And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?' — read the full passage →

Mark 11:25

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

Proverbs 22:24–26

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 27:3–11

A stone <FI>is<Fi> heavy, and the sand <FI>is<Fi> heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both. — read the full passage →

Philippians 3:18–19

for many walk of whom many times I told you--and now also weeping tell--the enemies of the cross of the Christ! — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:1–7

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Galatians 2:20

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Romans 13:8–10

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

Luke 7:36–50

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), — read the full passage →

Mark 10:19

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

Matthew 24:21

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

Matthew 23:1–33

Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

1 Peter 2:23–3:9

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

Romans 12:12–14:19

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering; — read the full passage →

Luke 17:3–4

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

2 Peter 3:9–14

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation, — read the full passage →

1 Peter 1:22–4:14

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly, — read the full passage →

James 2:5–5:18

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? — read the full passage →

James 1:22–27

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:14–13:14

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord, — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 5:14

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

Colossians 2:10–4:10

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority, — read the full passage →

Philippians 3:1–4:23

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:5–6:16

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:1–18

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:8–27

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham-- — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 5:7–14

for through faith we walk, not through sight-- — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 4:4–7:10

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 12:26–14:26

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 1:18–3:13

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God, — read the full passage →

Romans 7:22–8:39

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, — read the full passage →

Romans 5:1–21

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Romans 2:21–24

Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach? — read the full passage →

Proverbs 15:1–17:28

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

Acts 1:8

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

John 13:34–35

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

Luke 21:1–4

And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury--rich men, — read the full passage →

Luke 20:46–47

`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers, — read the full passage →

Luke 12:33

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

Mark 16:15–18

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation; — read the full passage →

Mark 7:20–22

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

Matthew 23:27–28

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; — read the full passage →

Matthew 20:20–28

Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him, — read the full passage →

Exodus 21:15–17

`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death. — read the full passage →

Colossians 1:13–29

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love, — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:1–3

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

Romans 2:3–3:18

And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? — read the full passage →

Acts 2:13–3:18

and others mocking said, --`They are full of sweet wine;' — read the full passage →

Acts 2:1–47

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

John 4:19–21

The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; — read the full passage →

John 1:5–3:30

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it. — read the full passage →

Luke 18:9–14

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: — read the full passage →

Luke 16:1–18:43

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

Mark 9:1–11:33

And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.' — read the full passage →

Mark 5:1–7:37

And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes, — read the full passage →

Matthew 25:31–46

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

Matthew 12:31–45

Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. — read the full passage →

Matthew 7:5–9:36

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. — read the full passage →

Malachi 1:1–2:17

The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi: — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 7:26–8:12

And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart <FI>is<Fi> nets and snares, her hands <FI>are<Fi> bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 7:9–22

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 29:1–30:33

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 21:17–31

Whoso <FI>is<Fi> loving mirth <FI>is<Fi> a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth. — read the full passage →

Psalms 119:38–51

Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That <FI>is<Fi> concerning Thy fear. — read the full passage →

Psalms 10:1–15:5

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity, — read the full passage →

Job 5:2–6:24

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple, — read the full passage →

Genesis 49:5–10

Simeon and Levi <FI>are<Fi> brethren! Instruments of violence--their espousals! — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:7–8

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: YLT.