25 Bible Verses about Wronging Other People

And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.

Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt.

And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."

And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.

For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?"

'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, 'Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.'

These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?

"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.

But he said to them, "The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.

Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

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

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?"

But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."

And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?'

To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

But you yourselves wrong and defraud--even your own brothers!

Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Brothers,I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.