Forgiveness, When It's Hard
Verses for being forgiven and forgiving
Forgiveness is not saying it did not matter. It is refusing to let the wound keep writing your story.
This path starts with the anger honestly named, moves through the mercy you have already been shown, and ends at the cross, where forgiveness was spoken first.
Readings
11 passages · Douay-Rheims
Ephesians 4:26
“Be angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.”
Colossians 3:13
“Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.”
Ephesians 4:32
“And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.”
Matthew 18:21-35 · The Unforgiving Servant
“Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till…”
Luke 7:41-43 · The Two Debtors
“A certain creditor had two debtors, the one who owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two love…”
Matthew 6:14
“For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences.”
Luke 6:37
“Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.”
Luke 23:34
“And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.”
Psalm 103:12
“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.”
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.”
Micah 7:19
“He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all our sins into the depth of the sea.”