16 Bible Verses about People Forgiving Others

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.

'And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.

and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.'

then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me,

'At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,

Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;

and Moses commandeth them, saying, 'At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the feast of booths,

and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

and they not having wherewith to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

And Simon answering said, 'I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;' and he said to him, 'Rightly thou didst judge.'

And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven it, because of you -- in the person of Christ -- I forgive it,

but if ye may not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

and, if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your trespasses.'