25 Bible Verses about Wronging Other People

"'When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbour or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

And see that no man oppress his neighbour, but fear thy God. For I am the LORD your God.

And it chanced, after this, that the chief butler of the king of Egypt and his chief baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Reuben answered them, saying, "Said I not unto you that ye should not sin against the lad? But ye would not hear; And now verily see, his blood is required."

And Jonathan spake the best of David unto Saul his father and said unto him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David, for he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are to thee ward very good.

For he did put his life in his hand and slew the Philistine, and the LORD gave a great victory to all Israel. And thou sawest it, and thou rejoicedest. Wherefore then shouldest thou sin against innocent blood, and slay David for nought?"

'This wise say unto Joseph: forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they rewarded thee evil.' Now therefore we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of thy father's God." And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

There is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us, 'make brick.' And lo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul intreated."

for this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands before their eyes, and shall say, 'The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to come before him, but she would not.'

Lo, ten times have ye reproved me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me to scorn?

"But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.

O LORD, thou hast seen my blasphemers; take thou my cause upon thee.

And he said unto them, "Shall it be so? The LORD be with you! Should I let you go, and your children also? Take heed, for ye have some mischief in hand.

Moreover, Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, "What have I offended against thee, against thy servants or against this people, that ye have caused me to be put in prison?

For and if ye shall forgive other men their trespasses, your heavenly father shall also forgive you.

But and if ye will not forgive men their trespasses, no more shall your father forgive your trespasses.

"Moreover, if thy brother trespass against thee, Go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone. If he hear thee, thou hast won thy brother:

Then came Peter to him, and said, "Master, how oft shall I forgive my brother, if he sin against me? Shall I forgive him seven times?"

He answered to one of them, saying, 'Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?'

And though he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee saying, It repenteth me, forgive him."

And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, 'Sirs, ye are brethren why hurt ye one another?'

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why rather suffer ye not wrong? Why rather suffer ye not yourselves to be robbed?

Nay, ye yourselves do wrong, and rob: and that the brethren.

When ye sin so against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, ye sin against Christ.

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurt me at all.