Bible Strands
What does the Bible say about anger?
Not forbidden. Given a time limit, a direction, and a warning about what it does to the person holding it.
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,Ephesians 4:26
Be angry and do not sin — the two are not treated as the same thing.
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,James 1:19
Slow to anger, put alongside quick to listen, as one habit.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath. An observation about what actually works.
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. SelahPsalms 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin, and then: "on your bed, search your heart and be still".
Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.Mark 3:5
Jesus looks around at them in anger, grieved at their hard hearts.
Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.Psalms 137:9
The rawest thing in the Psalms, left in. It is a prayer, not an instruction.
Every passage here is quoted from the Berean Standard Bible and checked against it. The other topics.