42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

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

Do not give the devil an opportunity.

A person's wisdom makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

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

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

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

He prayed to the Lord and said, "Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish! -- because I knew that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.

He does not always accuse, and does not stay angry.

Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended the builders!

The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.'

O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

Lord, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

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

You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.

Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them."

O Lord God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?

How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?

Perhaps then they will ask the Lord for mercy and will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. For the Lord has threatened to bring great anger and wrath against these people."

But you, Lord, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die."

The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt.

The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

"We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven."

Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.

If the anger of the ruler flares up against you, do not resign from your position, for a calm response can undo great offenses.

"Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. Tell them, 'Come back to me, wayward Israel,' says the Lord. 'I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. For I am merciful,' says the Lord. 'I will not be angry with you forever.

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says 'Fool' will be sent to fiery hell.