Anger isn't condemned outright in Scripture — but what you do with it matters. These verses are honest about both.
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“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”
Ephesians 4:26 (KJV)
“...let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
James 1:19-20 (KJV)“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)Ephesians 4:26 doesn't say don't be angry — it assumes you will be, and addresses what comes next. Anger itself isn't the sin; what you build on top of it can be. The instruction not to let the sun go down on it isn't about suppressing the feeling fast — it's about not letting it calcify into something colder and more permanent, like bitterness or resentment that outlives the original reason.