38 Bible Verses about Anger And Forgiveness

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

And do not give way to the Evil One.

A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but 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, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.

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

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.

With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.

O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.

But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?

He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.