18 Bible Verses on Anger and Forgiveness, Which Paul Treats as One Paragraph



  • Ephesians commands anger at 4:26 and forgiveness at 4:32, in one argument, with speech in between.
  • Luke 17:3 puts “rebuke him” before “forgive him”, which is almost always dropped when the verse is quoted.
  • Romans 12:18 concedes twice in one sentence that peace may not be available and the other person’s share is not ours to supply.
  • Psalm 103 removes sins as far as east is from west — the one pair of directions with no measurable distance between them.
  • Stephen echoes the sentence from the cross while a young man named Saul holds the coats.

The passage that tells us to be angry tells us to forgive six verses later, and it is one paragraph. Paul does not treat these as opposite subjects. Be angry and do not sin comes first; be kind, tenderhearted, forgiving one another comes at the end of the same argument, and everything between is about speech — what we say when we are furious, and who hears it. The eighteen passages below keep the two together, including the parts of…

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