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What does the Bible say about a Hot Temper?

Psalm 4:4 (NKJV) Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah”

Proverbs 14:17 (NKJV) A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, And a man of wicked intentions is hated.”

Proverbs 14:29 (NKJV) He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly.”

Proverbs 15:1 (NKJV) A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.”

Proverbs 15:18 (NKJV) A wrathful man stirs up strife, But he who is slow to anger allays contention.”

Proverbs 22:24–26 (NKJV) Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go, Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul. Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is surety for debts;”

Proverbs 25:28 (NKJV) Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls.”

Proverbs 29:22 (NKJV) An angry man stirs up strife, And a furious man abounds in transgression.”

Ecclesiastes 7:9 (NKJV) Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.”

Galatians 5:19–21 (NKJV) Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Ephesians 4:25–27 (NKJV) Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.”

James 1:19–20 (NKJV) So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”

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