16 Bible Verses about People Forgiving Others
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He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.
It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil,
And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive every man who is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Then his lord having summoned him, he says to him, Thou evil bondman, I forgave thee all that debt because thou besought me.
At the end of every seven years thou shall make a release.
Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
And having felt compassion, the lord of that bondman released him, and forgave him the debt.
And of them not having to repay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore, do thou say, will love him more?
And having answered, Simon said, I suppose that it was to whom he forgave more. And he said to him, Thou have judged correctly.
But to whom ye forgive anything, I too. For I also, whom I have forgiven (if anything), I have forgiven because of you in the presence of Christ,
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father in the heavens forgive your trespasses.