42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.

A person’s insight gives him patience,
and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

So My heavenly Father will also do to you if each of you does not forgive his brother from his heart.”

My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

He prayed to the Lord: “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster.

And his master got angry and handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed.

Yet He was compassionate;
He atoned for their guilt
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash all His wrath.

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

ס SamekYou have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us;
You have killed without compassion.

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.

They refused to listen
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,
and You did not abandon them.

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

He will not always accuse us
or be angry forever.

Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from Your sight, because they have provoked the builders.

The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.

Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.

Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against Him

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

Lord, do not be terribly angry
or remember our iniquity forever.
Please look—all of us are Your people!

The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.

You withdrew all Your fury;
You turned from Your burning anger.

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they cry out in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”

Lord God of Hosts,
how long will You be angry
with Your people’s prayers?

How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?

Perhaps their petition will come before the Lord, and each one will turn from his evil way, for the anger and fury that the Lord has pronounced against this people are great.”

But You, Lord, know
all their deadly plots against me.
Do not wipe out their guilt;
do not blot out their sin before You.
Let them be forced to stumble before You;
deal with them in the time of Your anger.

But with You there is forgiveness,
so that You may be revered.

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.

Then the master of that slave had compassion, released him, and forgave him the loan.

Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,

We have sinned and rebelled;
You have not forgiven.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?

A patient person shows great understanding,
but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.

If the ruler’s anger rises against you, don’t leave your place,
for calmness puts great offenses to rest.

Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say:

Return, unfaithful Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not look on you with anger,
for I am unfailing in My love.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not be angry forever.

But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Fool!’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You moron!’ will be subject to hellfire.