42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

"Be angry, and do not sin." Do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

neither give place to the devil.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

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

This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

He prayed to the LORD, and said, "Please, LORD, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.

The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and did not forsake them.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."

'The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'

Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath 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 who are around us.

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.

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

Do not be furious, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

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

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

therefore I will also deal in wrath; 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."

LORD God of Hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will 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 wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

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

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says the LORD. 'I will not keep anger forever.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing.' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool.' shall be in danger of the fire of hell.