Love and Forgiveness

Love And
Forgiveness
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 255 helpful votes
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved,
compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against
another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you
also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds
everything together in perfect harmony.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 226 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a
multitude of sins.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 148 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has
to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in
love.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 139 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against
another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you
also must forgive.
Luke 6:37 ESV / 114 helpful votes
Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will
not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as

God in Christ forgave you.
Romans 12:9 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
John 3:16 ESV / 74 helpful votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 73 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of
these is love.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter
separates close friends.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 66 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic
powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be
burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not
insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the
will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also
have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is
easy, and my burden is light.
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in
return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the
Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 47 helpful votes
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the
unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the
flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed
to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when
God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being
prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely
through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you,
not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a
good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has
gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels,
authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should
not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain
unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband

should not divorce his wife.
John 20:19-24 ESV / 46 helpful votes
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors
being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus
came and stood among them and said to them, Peace be with you.
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to
them again, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so
I am sending you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them
and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of
any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it
is withheld.
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 41 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel
over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the
weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise
the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass
judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are
you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own
master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is
able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than
another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be
fully convinced in his own mind.
Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no
more.
Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and
my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our
home with him.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been
poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to
us.
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth
to forgive sinshe then said to the paralyticRise, pick up your
bed and go home. And he rose and went home. When the crowds
saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such
authority to men.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for
his friends.
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor
stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his
delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day
and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields
its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does,
he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind
drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just
as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who
loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, You
shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal,
You shall not covet, and any other commandment, are summed up
in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no
wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought
to lay down our lives for the brothers.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be
called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world
does not know us is that it did not know him.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light
of life.
Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything
against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses.
Matthew 5:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Luke 6:32-36 ESV / 23 helpful votes
If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For
even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those
who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do
the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to
receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to

get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good,
and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great,
and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the
ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love,
as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and
sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or
covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper
among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude
joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral
or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they
may have life and have it abundantly.
Mark 14:1-72 ESV / 21 helpful votes
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of
Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were
seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, Not
during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people. And while
he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was
reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment
of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over
his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly,

Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could
have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the
poor. And they scolded her.
2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 19 helpful votes
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold
to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken
word or by our letter.
Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare
a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that
where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am
going. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are
going. How can we know the way?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did
not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order
that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be
anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in
heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and
sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who
love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors
do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are
you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my
heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I
sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over
him, lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
1 John 3:19-20 ESV / 18 helpful votes
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart
before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater
than our heart, and he knows everything.
1 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a
tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or
reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were
called, that you may obtain a blessing.
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they
do. And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does
not believe will be condemned.
Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?
Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but seventy
times seven.
Daniel 9:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have
rebelled against him
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins
are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red
like crimson, they shall become like wool.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who
addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when
the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the
hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is
my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in
whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold.
1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be
called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world
does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's
children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we
know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall
see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies
himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also
practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared
to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in
some measurenot to put it too severelyto all of you. For such a
one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should
rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed
by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth
comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have
love for one another.
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I
will not remember your sins.
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who
formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have
called you by name, you are mine.
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my
help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and
earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not
slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper; theLord is your shade on your right hand.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved,
compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Micah 7:18-19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over
transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain
his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will
again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had
mercy on you? And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,
until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do
to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your
heart.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion
on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does
not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our
iniquities.
And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your
cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him
two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the
one who would borrow from you.
Psalm 18:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved

from my enemies.
Mark 3:28-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and
whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against
the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal
sin

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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as

unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband

receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to

his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly,

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved

Mark 3:28-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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