11 Bible Verses about Wronging Other People
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"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.
"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.
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?"
But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not contract with me at twenty cents?
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."
The next day he showed himself to two of them engaged in a fight, and he tried to get them to make friends, saying, 'You are brothers, why should you harm each other?'
To say no more, it is a mark of moral failure among you to have lawsuits at all with one another. Why not rather suffer being wronged? Why not suffer being robbed?
On the contrary, you practice wronging and robbing others, and that your brothers.
Now if in such a way you sin against your brothers and wound their overscrupulous consciences, you are actually sinning against Christ.
I beg you, brothers, take my point of view, just as I took yours. You did me no injustice then.
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