42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness
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Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, 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 abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."
'Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'
Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath 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 reproach to all who are around us.
Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people.
Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep [anger] forever.
But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
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