Holding Grudges

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

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

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

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.

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

“‘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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

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

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.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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.

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.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — 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.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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

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 →

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; — read the full passage →

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

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

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 →

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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 →

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. — read the full passage →

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. — read the full passage →

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. — read the full passage →

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

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. — read the full passage →

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing. — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — 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?”

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.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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 Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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 →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? — read the full passage →

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

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,

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

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