46 Bible Verses about Unforgiveness

Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood; And it was in his hearing the words of this oath, and he blessed himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I shall go to add satiating to thirst: Jehovah shall not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of Jehovah shall smoke, and his jealousy against that man, and every curse written in this book lay upon him, and Jehovah wiped out his name from under the heavens.read more.
And Jehovah separated him for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the book of this law:

Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him.

Watching kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and the fourth.

Jehovah, slow to anger and of great kindness, lifting up iniquity and transgression and cleansing, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third, and upon the fourth.

And Joshua will say to the people, Ye will not be able to serve Jehovah, for a holy God is he: a jealous God is he; he will not take away your transgressions and your sins.

And also the innocent blood which he poured forth, (and he will fill Jerusalem with innocent blood) and Jehovah would not pardon.

Therefore thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye rejected in this word, and ye will trust in violence and perverseness, and ye will do upon it For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment And he broke it as the breaking of a vessel of the potter's being crushed; he will not spare: and there shall not be found in its crushing a sherd to take fire from the burning, and to skim off water from the reservoir.

How shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to the house of the harlot

We transgressed and resisted: thou forgavest not

And she will yet conceive and bring forth a daughter. And he will say to him, Call her name, Not being compassionated: for I will no more add to compassionate the house of Israel; for taking away, I will take them away.

Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican. I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess.read more.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful. I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

Any one having rejected Moses' law, without compassion dies by two or three witnesses: Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy. having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.read more.
Terrible to fall into the hands of the living God.

For from Jehovah it was to strengthen their heart to meet Israel in war in order to destroy them; no favor to be to them, but to destroy them as Jehovah commanded Moses.

For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables: That seeing they might see, and not know; and hearing they might hear, and not understand; lest they turn back, and their sins be remitted to them.

And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be? And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know. Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind. And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him, We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained.

For this I say to you, All sin and blasphemy shall be let go to men; but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be let go to men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be let go to him, neither in this time, nor that about to be.

Truly I say to you, That all sins shall be remitted to the sons of men, and defamations whatever they defame: And whoever should defame against the Holy Spirit has no remission forever, but he is liable to the penalty of eternal condemnation.

And every one who shall say a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him: and to him blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be remitted.

If any see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and sinning will give him life to them sinning not to death. There is a sin to death: I say not of that, that he should ask.

For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you. But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.

So speak ye, and so do, as about to be judged by the law of liberty. For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

If therefore, thou bring thy gift upon the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother has anything against thee, Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.

And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed. Give, and it shall be given you; good measure, yielded, and shaken, and overflowed, shall they give into your bosom: for with the same measure that ye measure, shall it be measured back to you.

Then his lord, having called him, said unto him, O thou evil servant, I let go to you all that debt since thou besoughtest me: Oughtest thou not also to pity thy fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee And his lord having become angry, delivered him to the torturers even till he should give back all being owed to him.read more.
So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.

And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one : that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls. And if ye do not let go, neither will your Father, he in the heavens, let go your falls.

For, for this Christ also died, and also arose, and returned again to life, that he might also reign over the dead and the living. And why judgest thou thy brother? or why also despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ. For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God.read more.
So therefore shall each of us give word for himself to God. Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother.

And thou, O Jehovah, knewest all their counsel against me to kill: thou wilt not expiate for their iniquity, and their sin from before thee thou wilt not wipe away, and they shall be weak before thee; do with them in the time of thine anger.

And thou wilt not cover over their iniquity, and their sin shall not be wiped away before thee: for they provoked before the builders.

And man will bow down, and a man will humble himself, and thou shalt not lift up to them.

And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;

For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.

If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand? For with thee, forgiveness; so that thou shalt be feared.

To Jehovah our God compassion and forgivenesses, for we rebelled against him.

Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.

Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that for him remission of sins is announced to you.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as also Christ received us to the glory of God.

And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all. Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many. So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.read more.
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him. For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things. And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ; That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)