42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry, and yet 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, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

and do not give the devil an opportunity.

A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger,
And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

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

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

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

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him.

But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;
And often He restrained His anger
And did not arouse all His wrath.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and have not spared.

The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

“They refused to listen,
And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed among them;
So they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a God of forgiveness,
Gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;
And You did not forsake them.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in unchanging love.

He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.

Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, 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 generations.’

O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your 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 a reproach to all those around us.

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

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

Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayer of Your people?

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Perhaps their supplication will come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

Yet You, O Lord, know
All their deadly designs against me;
Do not forgive their iniquity
Or blot out their sin from Your sight.
But may they be overthrown before You;
Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

But there is forgiveness with You,
That You may be feared.

Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

We have transgressed and rebelled,
You have not pardoned.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?

He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.

If the ruler’s temper rises against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great offenses.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say,
‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord;
‘I will not look upon you in anger.
For I am gracious,’ declares the Lord;
‘I will not be angry forever.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.