42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.

neither give place to the devil.

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

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you unless from your hearts ye forgive every one his brother their trespasses.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

And if he trespasses against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turns again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

And he prayed unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was this not what I said when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and dost repent when thou art come to take punishment.

And his lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due unto him.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath.

For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

Samech Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven.

Cheth The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.

and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion thought to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou art a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, for thou didst not leave them.

Who is a God like unto thee that pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellion with the remnant of his heritage? He did not retain his anger for ever because he delights in mercy.

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

And do not cover their iniquity, nor let their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have become angry against the builders.

The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and all thy people is given in reproach to all that are about us.

Of the Lord our God is the ability to have mercy and to forgive, even though we have rebelled against him

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

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

The LORD will not forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

leave thy gift there before the altar, and go; first restore friendship with thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

but if ye do not set men free from their trespasses, neither will your Father set you free from your trespasses.

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Therefore I will also deal in fury: my eye shall not forgive, neither will I have mercy: and they shall cry in my ears with a loud voice; yet I will not hear them.

O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

if peradventure their prayer will fall into the presence of the LORD, and they shall turn each one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

Yet, LORD, thou dost know all their counsel against me to slay me; do not forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

Therefore there is forgiveness close to thee, that thou may be feared.

Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?

Then the lord of that slave was moved with compassion and loosed him and forgave him the debt.

And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,

Nun We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.

Then the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

He that is slow to wrath is of great intelligence, but he that is short of spirit exalts folly.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee, do not leave thy place; for meekness pacifies great sins.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north wind and say, Return, thou rebellious Israel, said the LORD and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, said the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother out of control shall be in danger of the judgment, and whosoever shall insult his brother shall be in danger of the council, but whosoever shall say, Thou art impious, shall be in danger of hell.