42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

and give no opportunity to the devil.

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."

And he prayed to the LORD and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,until he should pay all his debt.

Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

"You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;

The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.

Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.

'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

"O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.

The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

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 others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.

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

O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the LORD, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.

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

Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish."

And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

"We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "'Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.