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Anger in the Bible

Wrath, slow to anger, and mastering the temper.

536 King James verses match this subject. The chapters below hold the heaviest concentration of them, so you can read each passage where it actually sits.

Chapters to read

Matched on the words themselves in the King James text. Where a word is also a name, it can point to more than one person or place, so read the chapter to see which.

Jeremiah 325 VERSES

Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

1 Kings 165 VERSES

Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

Proverbs 152 VERSES

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

Deuteronomy 96 VERSES

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

Psalms 789 VERSES

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Jeremiah 74 VERSES

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Deuteronomy 325 VERSES

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Jeremiah 443 VERSES

Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

2 Kings 232 VERSES

Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

Psalms 1067 VERSES

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

Jeremiah 255 VERSES

And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

Deuteronomy 295 VERSES

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Ezekiel 205 VERSES

But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 52 VERSES

Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

Colossians 33 VERSES

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Psalms 903 VERSES

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Psalms 853 VERSES

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Isaiah 633 VERSES

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

Isaiah 133 VERSES

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

1 Kings 143 VERSES

But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

Ezekiel 163 VERSES

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

2 Kings 173 VERSES

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

Nahum 13 VERSES

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

2 Kings 212 VERSES

And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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