42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry, and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down upon your wrath,

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

neither give place to the Devil.

The judgment of a man puts off his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also to you, unless each one of you from your hearts forgive his brother their trespasses.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

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

And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity.

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

But He, full of pity, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; yea, many times He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.

For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain; You have not pitied.

Jehovah is gracious and full of pity; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

And they refused to obey, neither were they mindful of Your wonders which You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

He will not always chasten, nor will He keep His anger forever.

And do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You. For they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

O Lord, I pray You, according to all Your righteousness let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a curse to all those who are around us.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Him.

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy.

Do not be grievously angry, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold! Look, please; all of us are Your people.

Jehovah will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and Jehovah shall blot out his name from under heavens.

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

but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the heat of Your anger.

And I will also deal with fury; My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?

How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

It may be they will present their prayer before Jehovah, and will return, each one from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah has spoken against this people.

Yet, Jehovah, You know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from Your sight, but let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.

Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.

Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.

And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

We have sinned and have rebelled; You have not forgiven.

And Jehovah said to Cain, Why have you angrily glowed? And why did your face fall?

He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding quiets great sinners.

Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O backsliding Israel, says Jehovah; and I will not cause My anger to fall on you; for I am merciful, says Jehovah, and I will not keep anger forever.

But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be liable to the judgment. And whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrin; but whoever shall say, Fool! shall be liable to be thrown into the fire of hell.