15 Bible Verses about Bullying
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You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge [against] {your fellow citizens}; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I [am] Yahweh.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.
Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; [it] only brings evil.
Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.
[Like] the release of water [is] the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.
A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir {anger}.
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.
Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to [God's] wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," says the Lord. But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."
The one who says [he] is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,
There are six [things] Yahweh hates, and seven [things are] abominations of his soul: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,read more.
a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge [with] trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion {to one another}. You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'
Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!" When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.