42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

neither give room for the devil.

The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Thus also my heavenly Father shall do to you if ye forgive not from your hearts every one his brother.

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

And his lord being angry delivered him to the tormentors till he paid all that was owing to him.

But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.

Who is a God like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness.

He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever.

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.

Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.

Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all round about us.

With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.

Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;

leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

Thou hast withdrawn all thy wrath; thou hast turned from the fierceness of thine anger.

And I also will deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

It may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah, and that they will return every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people.

And thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee: deal with them in the time of thine anger.

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

And the lord of that bondman, being moved with compassion, loosed him and forgave him the loan.

And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy countenance fallen?

He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep anger for ever.

But I say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to be called before the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire.