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Do you struggle with anger management issues and wonder what the Bible has to say? If so, this article on Bible verses about anger may be just what you are looking for. Knowing what it says about anger can help you process it and deal with it more positively. The Bible tells us that not all anger is bad. Anger can be righteous or unrighteous, depending on what makes you angry, what you do with it, whether it controls you, etc. If you're looking for support, Flower Mound Christian Counseling can offer guidance on how to manage anger from a Christian perspective. Anger Management: Righteous anger Righteous anger is a response to injustice and wrongdoing, to people taking advantage of the weak and poor, to things that dishonor God. It focuses on the defense of others or principles and confronts both the sin and the sinner. Righteous anger is the kind of anger God feels toward the wicked, and that Jesus expressed when He drove the moneychangers out of the temple. It does not stir up conflict, cause quarrels, or lead to wrongdoing or unforgiveness. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. – Romans 1:18 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” – [...]