25 Bible Verses about Wronging Other People

In the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

You must not wrong one another. You shall respect your God. I am Jehovah your God.

The king's chief cupbearer and his chief baker made the king angry.

Reuben said: Did I not tell you? Did I say, 'Do not sin against the boy'? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.

Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. You should not commit a sin against your servant David, he said. He has not sinned against you. He has in fact done some very fine things for you.

He risked his life and killed the Philistine Goliath. Jehovah gave all Israel a great victory. You rejoiced when you saw it. Why should you sin by shedding David's innocent blood for no reason?

You are to say to Joseph: Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you. If it is your pleasure, forgive the sin of the servants of your father's God.' Upon hearing these words Joseph was overcome with weeping.

No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame.

For news of what the queen has done will come to the attention of all women. They will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, 'King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she did not come.'

You have insulted me ten times now. You are not even ashamed of hurting me.

Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

O Jehovah, you saw the wrong done to me. Do conduct the judgment for me!

He said to them: May Jehovah be with you, as I send you and your little ones away. Watch out for evil is before you.

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah: What crime have I committed against you, your administrators, or these people? Why have you put me in prison?

If you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

If you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.

If your brother does wrong to you, go to him in private. Clearly explain his error between you and him. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother back.

Peter came to him and said: Lord, How many times may my brother do wrong against me, and I forgive him? Seven times?

He told them: 'I do you no wrong. You made an agreement with me for a penny.

If he sins against you seven times in one day and repents each time, you must forgive him.

The next day he appeared to them while they were fighting. He wanted to unite them and said, 'You are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)?

Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

When you sin against your brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also used to be as you are. You did me no wrong.