18 Bible Verses About Anger and Forgiveness, Including What Forgiveness Is Not

The Bible allows anger within limits and commands forgiveness, on the ground that God has forgiven first. Ephesians 4 contains both. “Be angry and do not sin” at verse 26 quotes Psalm 4:4, and “forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” comes at verse 32; the verses between deal with stealing, corrupting talk, bitterness and slander. The eighteen verses below cover human anger, God’s anger and its limits, the command to forgive, what forgiveness does and does not…