42 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

be angry and do not sin; 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 become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

neither give place to the devil;

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.

so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, 'I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

'And having been wroth, his lord delivered him to the inquisitors, till he might pay all that was owing to him;

And He -- the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.

For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.

Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou art a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth in kindness.

Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch.

and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger -- over-against those building.

Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth; --

O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are for a reproach to all our neighbours;

To the Lord our God are the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,

Merciful and gracious is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people are we all.

Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

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

Thou hast gathered up all Thy wrath, Thou hast turned back from the fierceness of Thine anger.

And I also deal in fury, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried in Mine ears -- a loud voice -- and I do not hear them.'

Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

if so be their supplication doth fall before Jehovah, and they turn back each from his evil way, for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath spoken concerning this people.'

And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me is for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

But with Thee is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.

Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'

and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: 'Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven.

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, 'Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?

Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.

Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I am kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.