42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down upon your anger (rage).

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice.

You should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also forgave you through (by means of) Christ.

Do not give the devil an opportunity.

The discretion of a man defers anger. It is his glory to overlook a transgression.

My heavenly Father will treat you like that if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.

You know this, 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 one day and repents each time, you must forgive him.

He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster).

His lord was angry and sent him to jail to be punished until he paid back all of his debt.

But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.

You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.

You blocked our approach to you with anger. You have slain us without compassion.

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in loving-kindness.

They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

He will not always chasten, nor will he keep his anger forever.

Do not let their wrongdoing be covered or their sin be washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.

O Jehovah, according to all your righteousness, let your anger, I pray you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those who are round about us.

To Jehovah our God belong mercies and forgiveness. We have rebelled against him.

Jehovah is merciful and gracious. He is slow to anger, and rich in loving-kindness.

Do not be too angry, Jehovah. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people.

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

leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.

If you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.

You laid aside all your fury. You turned away from your burning anger.

They will feel all the force of my anger. I will not spare them or show them any mercy (my eye will not feel sorry). They will shout prayers to me as loud as they can. But I will not listen to them

O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire?

Maybe their prayers will come into Jehovah's presence, and they will turn from their evil ways. Jehovah has threatened these people with his terrifying anger and fury.

Yet You, O Jehovah, 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 reverenced.

Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?

Being moved with pity, the lord let him go, and made him free of the debt.

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

For we have done wrong. We have rebelled against your law. We have not received your forgiveness.

Jehovah said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?

He who is slow to anger has great understanding. He who is short tempered exalts foolishness.

If the temper of the ruler rises up against you do not withdraw from him for gentleness can put a stop to great offenses.

Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.

Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).