42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

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

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

Neither give place to the devil.

The discretion of a man delays his anger; and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if you from your hearts forgive not everyone his brother their trespasses.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

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 unto the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and you relent from the destruction.

And his lord was angry, and delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all that was due unto him.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.

You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.

Who is a God like unto you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, 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 reproach to all that are about us.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

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

You have taken away all your anger: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.

Therefore will I also deal in fury: 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.

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

How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

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

Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

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

Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

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

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your countenance fallen?

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, leave not your post; for yielding pacifies great offences.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, You fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.