Emotional intelligence and Bible
Verses about Controlling your Emotions
Emotions are built into our nature. Controlling and managing
our emotions are important factors in determining our success in work and in
relationships.
Success or failure in every endeavor can be traced back to
how you allow your emotions to impact you. How effectively you understand your
emotions and use them for the greater benefit is a sign of maturity.
- Emotions influence our decisions and choices.
- Motivate our actions.
- Help us to interact with others.
- Impacts our perceptions of God, self, others and situations.
- They assist us in interpreting how others feel.
- Helps in navigating changes in life’s situations.
Emotional intelligence is described as a person's ability to
understand their own or others' feelings or emotions, and apply them to their
personal experiences in order to accomplish desired results.
People wishing to increase their emotional intelligence will
find the Bible to be a great goldmine of wisdom.
The capacity to detect and discriminate between diverse
emotions, as well as process them, is a crucial part of emotional intelligence.
The Bible offers wisdom and guidance to navigate through
your emotions and feelings.
Examples of negative emotions are: anger, fear, envy, poor
self image, low self-worth, pride, greed, self pity etc.
Positive emotions include - love, trust, faith, courage, boldness,
confidence, gratitude etc.
Learn how to maximize your positive feelings and allow God
to help you fulfill your purpose.
Your feelings are mostly determined by your deeply held
beliefs.
Learn to align your thoughts and beliefs to the word of God
as revealed in the scriptures, and that is a sure way to live a life of freedom.
Bible Verses about Controlling your Emotions:
PHILIPPIANS
4: 8 KJV
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be
any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
ROMANS 12:
2 KJV
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
PROVERBS
25:28 KJV
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that
is broken down, and without walls.
PROVERBS
16:32 KJV
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he
that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
ECCLESIASTES
11:10 KJV
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil
from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
DEUTERONOMY
31:8 KJV
And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he
will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not,
neither be dismayed.
PROVERBS
19:11 KJV
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his
glory to pass over a transgression.
EPHESIANS
4:31 KJV
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and
evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.
EPHESIANS
1:18 KJV
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye
may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of
his inheritance in the saints
PROVERBS
11:2 KJV
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is
wisdom.
Emotional intelligence and Bible
Verses about Controlling your Emotions
Emotions are built into our nature. Controlling and managing our emotions are important factors in determining our success in work and in relationships.
Success or failure in every endeavor can be traced back to how you allow your emotions to impact you. How effectively you understand your emotions and use them for the greater benefit is a sign of maturity.
- Emotions influence our decisions and choices.
- Motivate our actions.
- Help us to interact with others.
- Impacts our perceptions of God, self, others and situations.
- They assist us in interpreting how others feel.
- Helps in navigating changes in life’s situations.
People wishing to increase their emotional intelligence will find the Bible to be a great goldmine of wisdom.
The capacity to detect and discriminate between diverse emotions, as well as process them, is a crucial part of emotional intelligence.
The Bible offers wisdom and guidance to navigate through your emotions and feelings.
Examples of negative emotions are: anger, fear, envy, poor self image, low self-worth, pride, greed, self pity etc.
Positive emotions include - love, trust, faith, courage, boldness, confidence, gratitude etc.
Learn how to maximize your positive feelings and allow God to help you fulfill your purpose.
Your feelings are mostly determined by your deeply held beliefs.
Learn to align your thoughts and beliefs to the word of God as revealed in the scriptures, and that is a sure way to live a life of freedom.
Bible Verses about Controlling your Emotions:
PHILIPPIANS
4: 8 KJV
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be
any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and
evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.
EPHESIANS 1:18 KJV
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
PSALM 42:5
KJV
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
LAMENTATION 3:24 KJV
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
LUKE 12:15
KJV
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
JOHN 14:27 KJV
Peace I leave with
you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
PSALM 27:13 KJV
I had fainted,
unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of
the living.
PSALM 119:92 KJV
Unless thy law had
been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
COLOSSIANS 3:15 KJV
And let the peace
of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be
ye thankful.
PHILIPPIANS 4:13 KJV
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 KJV
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which
is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and
in your spirit, which are God's.
ROMANS 8:28 KJV
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love
God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
LUKE 6:45KJV
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that
which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
PROVERBS 3:5-6 KJV
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
PROVERBS 4:23 KJV
Keep thy heart
with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
2 TIMOTHY 1:7 KJV
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of
love, and of a sound mind.
PROVERBS 15:1 KJV
A soft answer turneth
away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
COLOSSIANS 3:8 KJV
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
filthy communication out of your mouth.
1 PETER 5:7KJV
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold
that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and
honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
PROVERBS 27:19 KJV
As in water face
answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
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