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100 Bible Verses about God Is Slow To Anger

Psalm 103:8 ESV / 207 helpful votes

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Exodus 34:6 ESV / 187 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Numbers 14:18 ESV / 167 helpful votes

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

Psalm 145:8 ESV / 160 helpful votes

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 149 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Joel 2:13 ESV / 136 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Jonah 4:2 ESV / 135 helpful votes

And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 123 helpful votes

They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 112 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Nahum 1:3 ESV / 100 helpful votes

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Psalm 86:5 ESV / 100 helpful votes

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

James 1:19 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 82 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

James 1:20 ESV / 73 helpful votes

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 60 helpful votes

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

Exodus 34:7 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Psalm 111:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes

He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 54 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Romans 9:22 ESV / 53 helpful votes

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Deuteronomy 4:31 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

James 1:19-20 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 50 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Psalm 116:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Romans 1:18 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Mark 3:5 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Numbers 11:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

James 1:13 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

James 1:3 ESV / 43 helpful votes

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

James 1:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Colossians 3:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 12:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 40 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

Exodus 32:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 37 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Psalm 78:38 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

James 1:18 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Romans 2:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 33 helpful votes

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

John 3:36 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Psalm 86:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

James 4:1-2 ESV / 31 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Psalm 112:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

2 Kings 17:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes

He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

2 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

James 4:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

James 1:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Titus 1:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Peter 3:20 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 10:19 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”

Jonah 4:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Jonah 3:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Revelation 6:16 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 6:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Romans 2:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?

Psalm 145:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

2 Chronicles 30:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

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