100 Bible Verses About Anger

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

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

And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

And the Lord hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez–uzzah to this day.

Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

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

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.