because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. —James 1:20 NIV
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” —John 2:13–17 NIV
A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. —Proverbs 15:18 NIV
26 “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. —Ephesians 4:26–27 NIV
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, —Ephesians 4:26 NIV
“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, —Ephesians 4:26 NKJV
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, —Ephesians 4:26 NIV
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, —Ephesians 4:26 NIV
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. —Phyllis Diller
and do not give the devil a foothold. —Ephesians 4:27 NIV
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. —Mark Twain
How to Deal with Anger God’s Way
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Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back. —Proverbs 29:11 NLT
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19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. —James 1:19–20 NIV
3.
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. —Colossians 3:8 NIV
4. Ask for the __Holy Spirits’
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! —Galatians 5:22–23 NLT