yelling
What does the Bible say about yelling? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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1A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.
19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger. 20For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God.
11A foolish one offers everything on his mind. A wise one reserves and defers until later.
18He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.
29Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.
8But now you must set aside all these things: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and indecent speech from your mouth.
36But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.
24For the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but instead he must be meek toward everyone, teachable, patient,
31Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and outcry and blasphemy be taken away from you, along with all malice.
23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue guards his soul from anguish.
6And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whoever values it shall eat from its fruits.
18A short-tempered man provokes conflicts. Whoever is patient tempers those who are stirred up.
26“Be angry, but do not be willing to sin.” Do not let the sun set over your anger.
10For whoever wants to love life and to see good days should restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, so that they utter no deceit.
15By patience, a leader shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.