42 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 clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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

Neither give place to the devil.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

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

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, 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 thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast 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 thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

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

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee 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 thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are 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 plenteous in mercy.

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy 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 thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

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

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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

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

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

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

Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed 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: thou hast not pardoned.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

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

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

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

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, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.