Alleviate Anger
- Anger
Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. —Proverbs 16:32
A quick-tempered person does foolish things, and the one who devises evil schemes is hated. —Proverbs 14:17
- Anger
Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared. —Proverbs 22:24-25
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. —James 1:19-20
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. —Proverbs 8:13
How to alleviate anger:
Proverbs 19:11; 29:11
In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, —Ephesians 4:26-27
…Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. —Eph. 4:26-27
29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and anger brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. —Ephesians 4:29-32
Shift from
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” 14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. —Matthew 21:12
Jesus got angry for the
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ —Matthew 22:36-39
There is nothing anger can do, that love can’t do better.