Forgiving Your Enemies

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink: — read the full passage →

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. — read the full passage →

“When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, — read the full passage →

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” — read the full passage →

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. — read the full passage →

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. — read the full passage →

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. — read the full passage →

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,