37 Bible Verses about Forgiving Others Who Hurt You

For if you forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will forgive you too.

But if you do not forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will not forgive you for your offenses.

You must bear with one another and forgive one another, if anyone has reason to be offended with anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

When you forgive a man, I forgive him too. For anything I had to forgive has been forgiven on your account, and as in the very presence of Christ,

leave your gift right there before the altar and go and make up with your brother; then come back and present your gift.

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

And if he wrongs you seven times a day, and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

And whenever you stand up to pray, if you have a grievance against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven too may forgive you your offenses."

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

And they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots for them,

For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!

Jesus said to him, "Not seven times over, I tell you, but seventy-seven times over!

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

That is what my heavenly Father will do to you, if you do not each forgive your brothers from your hearts!"

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive anyone who wrongs us; and do not subject us to temptation.' "

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.

Therefore, I tell you, men will be forgiven for any sin or abusive speech, but abusive speech about the Spirit cannot be forgiven.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,

For I will be merciful to their misdeeds, And I will no longer remember their sins.' "

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

And his master's heart was touched, and he let the slave go and canceled the debt.

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy!

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

So when you are presenting your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother has any grievance against you,

I tell you, who are my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body, and after that can do no more.

But I tell you not to resist injury, but if anyone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other to him too;

As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.

"You have heard that they were told, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

Alexander, the metal-worker, did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he did.

No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head!

"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well,

And who is there that can hurt you if you are eager to do what is right?

What pay then do I get? Why, that in my preaching I can offer the good news without cost, and so not take full advantage of my rights as a preacher.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer can have eternal life remain in his heart.

It will bear anything, believe anything, hope for anything, endure anything.