VERSES ABOUT FORGIVENESS

Forgiving others brings such freedom. It's like taking off a heavy backpack you've been carrying for way too long. There's a real beauty to forgiveness, and anyone who's experienced both giving and receiving it knows what I mean. God is our ultimate example, right? He shows us how it's done and calls us to practice it every single day.

So, I encourage you to forgive, just as Christ forgives you – every single day. It's time to let go and be free. Let's be real, in this life, someone is bound to hurt or offend you. But even then, we're called to learn to forgive and love again. Get that bitterness out of your system. Trust me, it'll help you grow and move forward. It'll even strengthen your relationship with God.

As children of God, we rejoice because we've received forgiveness for our sins through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. But it's important to remember that just as we've been forgiven, our hearts need to be ready to forgive others. Mark 11:25¹ says, "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses." As long as we repent and are faithful in forgiving others, God will completely forgive us. And that's when we can truly have a fresh start!

But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.

But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you,Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you.

If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.

For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you.But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)

And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.

Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times?And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven.

Giving hack evil for evil to none. Providing good things before all men.If possible of you, living peaceably with all men.

Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.

In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:

If thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he thirst, give him water to drink:For thou tookest up coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will recompense to thee.

Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.

Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God.

And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us.

If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?And this command have we from him, That he loving God love his brother also.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil.

A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.In this all shall know that ye are disciples to me, if ye have love in one another.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth;Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. '

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.

Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

As far off as the sunrisings from the west, he removed far from us our transgressions.

More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.

Hatred will excite strifes: and love will cover over all transgressions.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

Ye have heard, that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.

If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.

And let go to us our debts, as we let go to our debtors.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord:Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as also Christ received us to the glory of God.

And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one : that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)

Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated.

The understanding of man will defer his anger: and his glory to pass over transgression.

In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.

For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.

In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.

Love works no evil to the neighbor: love therefore the completion of the law.

And as ye wish that men would do to you, and do you to them likewise.

The ways of a man being accepted of Jehovah also he will make his enemies friends with him.

Therefore now no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus, walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.

Oughtest thou not also to pity thy fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee

A soft answer will turn away wrath, and a word of pain will bring up anger.

Desist from anger and forsake wrath: thou shalt not be angry only to do evil

Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it

And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)

And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed.

For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

And when they continued asking him, having lifted up the head, he said to them, Let him faultless among you, first cast a stone at her.

Let him bend away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and follow it.

The foolish one in the day shall make known his anger: but the prudent one covered dishonor.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love;

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up

Jehovah is compassionate and merciful; slow to anger, and great of mercy.

And the second like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And why judgest thou thy brother? or why also despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more.

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.

The man of mercy benefited his soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.

And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:

And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.

Happy the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

He saying he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness even until now.He loving his brother remains in light, and there is no stumbling-block in him.And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.

He pursuing justice and mercy shall find life, justice and honor.

The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is lonsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.

So therefore, let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for the building up for one another.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:For man s anger works not the justice of God.

Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends.

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging: for in what thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou judging doest the same.

Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore discerning as serpents, and pure as doves.

And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men;For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:Let him bend away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and follow it.

And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.For let each of us please the neighbor for good to the building.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good.

And he having answered, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself.

Let all things be in love.

If therefore, I washed your feet, the Lord and Teacher; ye also ought to wash the feet of one another:For I have given you a pattern, as I have done to you, also should ye do.

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:

Let brotherly love remain.Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship.

For all the law is completed in one word, in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.

As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us.

Thou shalt not say, I will requite evil; wait for Jehovah, he will save to thee.

My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled.

Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.

Thou shalt not withhold good from those possessing it in its being to the power of thy hand to do.

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.

I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done.

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace might aboundIt may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?

Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man;For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,

Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.

Which then of these three seems to thee to have been neighbor to him fallen among rubbers.?And he said, He having done mercy with him. Then said Jesus to him, Go thou, and do likewise.

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain.

And of his completion we all received, and grace for grace.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:And if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Chanting of David. Jehovah my shepherd, and I shall not wantHe will cause me to lie down in pastures of tender grass: he will lead me to the water of restHe will turn back my soul: he will guide me into the tracks of justice for sake of his name.

Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially:

Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.

For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

And, behold, they brought him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, child thy sins are let go to thee.

God a Spirit: and they worshipping him must worship in spirit and truth.

For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.

Therefore faith, from the report, and report by the word of God.

We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not.

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light:(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)

And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope.

If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

And God will fill up all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be timid.

Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit

The mind placed upon thee thou wilt form peace, peace, because he trusted in thee.

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths.

For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;

And I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same, and there be no divisions in you; and ye be set in order in the same mind and in the same knowledge.

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