37 Bible Verses about Forgiving Others Who Hurt You

"For if you forgive others their shortcomings your heavenly Father will forgive you, too.

But if you do not forgive others, your heavenly Father will not forgive your shortcomings either.

forbearing one another and freely forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; just as the Lord has freely forgiven you, so must you also do.

continue to bless those who curse you, and continue to pray for those who abuse you.

The man that you forgive I too forgive. For if I have forgiven him anything, it is what I have forgiven him in the very presence of Christ for your sake,

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

And whenever you stand and pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven too may forgive you your shortcomings."

Practice rejoicing with people who rejoice, and weeping with people who weep.

They drew lots to divide His clothes among them.

In what respect, then, were you inferior to the rest of the churches, except for the fact that I, and I only, never received from you any financial support? Please forgive me this wrong.

Jesus answered him: "I tell you, not as many as seven, but as many as seventy times seven!

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

This is the way my heavenly Father too will deal with you, if you do not, each one, heartily forgive your brother."

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who does us wrong, and do not let us be subjected to temptation.'"

"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.

So I tell you, every sin and all abusive speech will be forgiven men, but abuse against the Spirit cannot be forgiven.

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

For I will be merciful to their deeds of wrong, and never, never any more will I recall their sins,'"

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice.

And his master's heart was moved with pity, and he let the slave go free with his debt cancelled.

"Blessed are those who show mercy, for they will have mercy shown them.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

So if, in the very act of presenting your gift at the altar, you remember that your brother has something against you,

So I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body but after that have nothing more that they can do.

But I tell you not to resist the one who injures you, but if anyone slaps you on one cheek, turn him the other, too;

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

Alexander, a worker in metal, did me ever so much harm. The Lord will repay him for what he did.

Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head!

But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,

And who is it that will harm you if you are enthusiastic to do right?

Then what is the pay that I am getting? To be able to preach the good news without expense to anybody, and so never to make full use of my rights in preaching the good news.

Anyone who keeps on hating his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer can have eternal life remaining in him.

It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything.