Proverbs 15:18-- 18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
Proverbs 16:32-- 32 Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Proverbs 20:3-- 3 It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.
Proverbs 29:22-- 22 An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
Proverbs 30:33-- 33 For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”
Proverbs 13:10-- 10 Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Matthew 5:22-- 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
James 1:19-20-- 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.
Proverbs 29:11-- 11 Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.
Proverbs 19:11-- 11 A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
James 4:1-2-- 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
Psalm 37:8-9-- 8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. 9 For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
Proverbs 14:29-- 29 Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
