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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