37 Bible Verses about Forgiving Others Who Hurt You

"For if you forgive others their offences, your Heavenly Father will forgive you also;

but if you do not forgive others their offences, neither will your Father forgive yours.

bearing with one another and readily forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also must forgive.

bless those who curse you; pray for those who revile you.

When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift.

At this point Peter came to Him with the question, "Master, how often shall my brother act wrongly towards me and I forgive him? seven times?"

and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

But whenever you stand praying, if you have a grievance against any one, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive you your offences."

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing." And they divided His garments among them, drawing lots for them;

In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!

"I do not say seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy times seven times.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?

"In the same way my Heavenly Father will deal with you, if you do not all of you forgive one another from your hearts."

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive every one who fails in his duty to us; and bring us not into temptation.'"

"If your brother acts wrongly towards you, go and point out his fault to him when only you and he are there. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

This is why I tell you that men may find forgiveness for every other sin and impious word, but that for impious speaking against the Holy Spirit they shall find no forgiveness.

But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors;

Because I will be merciful to their wrongdoings, and their sins I will remember no longer.'"

Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice.

"Whereupon his master, touched with compassion, set him free and forgave him the debt.

"Blessed are the compassionate, for they shall receive compassion.

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

If therefore when you are offering your gift upon the altar, you remember that your brother has a grievance against you,

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.'

Alexander the metal-worker showed bitter hostility towards me: the Lord will requite him according to his doings.

On the contrary, therefore, if your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, quench his thirst. For by doing this you will be heaping burning coals upon his head.

"But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies; seek the welfare of those who hate you;

And who will be able to harm you, if you show yourselves zealous for that which is good?

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

Every one who hates his brother man is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has the Life of the Ages continuing in him.

She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.