41 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 clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

neither give place to the devil.

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

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye do not forgive each man his brother, from your hearts, their trespasses.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, 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 in the day turn back, saying, I repent, thou will forgive him.

And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundan

And having become angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors until he would pay all that was due to him.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

LORD is gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou did among them, but stiffened their neck. And in their rebellion they appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious a

Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

He will not always chide, nor will he keep [it] forever.

and do not cover their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.

LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth gene

O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy peopl

To LORD our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him,

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

Be not angry very severely, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then, after coming, bring thy gift.

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Thou have taken away all thy wrath. Thou have turned from the fierceness of thine anger.

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

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

How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

It may be they will present their supplication before LORD, and will return each one from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that LORD has pronounced against this people.

Yet, LORD, thou know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. Deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

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

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?

And having felt compassion, the lord of that bondman released him, and forgave him the debt.

And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.

And LORD said to Cain, Why are thou angry? And why has thy countenance fallen?

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

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee, leave not thy place, for deference allays great offences.

But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to