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Bible Verses about “managing emotions”

The Bible contains 50 verses about managing emotions across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Galatians 5:21
905 votes

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

Romans 12:19
815 votes

“Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."”

Galatians 5:19
810 votes

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

Galatians 5:20
786 votes

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

Romans 8:28
709 votes

“We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.”

James 1:19
615 votes

“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”

Galatians 5:22
614 votes

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

James 1:3
517 votes

“knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”

James 1:2
513 votes

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,”

Psalms 23:4
501 votes

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

Romans 12:18
495 votes

“If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.”

James 1:4
491 votes

“Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

James 1:12
489 votes

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”

Galatians 5:23
485 votes

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

Romans 12:21
484 votes

“Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

James 1:5
480 votes

“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.”

James 1:17
480 votes

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.”

James 1:20
462 votes

“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”

James 1:27
456 votes

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

Romans 12:20
440 votes

“Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."”

James 1:26
439 votes

“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”

James 1:22
415 votes

“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”

Psalms 23:3
412 votes

“He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”

Ephesians 4:26
409 votes

“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”

Psalms 23:1
400 votes

“Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.”

Romans 12:17
399 votes

“Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.”

Psalms 23:2
390 votes

“He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.”

Psalms 23:5
379 votes

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.”

Titus 2:5
377 votes

“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.”

Psalms 23:6
373 votes

“Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever. A Psalm by David.”

2 Corinthians 12:9
357 votes

“He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.”

James 1:14
342 votes

“But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.”

James 1:6
335 votes

“But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.”

James 1:15
328 votes

“Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.”

Ephesians 4:27
327 votes

“neither give place to the devil.”

Titus 2:4
316 votes

“that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,”

James 1:25
314 votes

“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”

James 1:23
313 votes

“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”

James 1:24
304 votes

“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”

James 1:8
292 votes

“He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

Galatians 5:16
291 votes

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

James 1:7
288 votes

“For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.”

James 1:13
276 votes

“Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.”

Titus 2:3
275 votes

“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;”

Romans 8:26
241 votes

“In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.”

Romans 8:18
239 votes

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.”

James 1:16
238 votes

“Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.”

James 1:18
238 votes

“Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”

James 1:21
231 votes

“Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”

James 1:10
230 votes

“and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.”

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