Forgiveness, Mercy, Grace and Love

In light of the recent tragic events this is a few passages to help keep the heart and the.head in the.correct places although yes it has caused much pain, grief and sorrow....may the Gods of all of us and them bring us wholeness, love , peace and Forgiveness

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.



Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 86 helpful votes



Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.



Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 65 helpful votes



Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.



Matthew 5:44 ESV / 65 helpful votes



But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,



Mark 11:25 ESV / 54 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.”



John 15:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes



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



Luke 6:27 ESV / 46 helpful votes



“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,



Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 39 helpful votes



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.



Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 39 helpful votes



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



Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 34 helpful votes



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.



Luke 23:34 ESV / 27 helpful votes



And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.



Matthew 18:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes



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



Colossians 3:13 ESV / 22 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.



1 John 1:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes



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



Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 21 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.



Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes



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



Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 19 helpful votes



Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.



1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 17 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; ...



Matthew 6:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes



And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.



Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes



Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.



Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes



Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.



Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 16 helpful votes



Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins,rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,' you must forgive him.”



Romans 12:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes



Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”



Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 15 helpful votes



Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...



Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 15 helpful votes



Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.



Luke 17:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes



And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,' you must forgive him.”



Luke 17:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes



Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins,rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,



Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 12 helpful votes



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. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...



Luke 6:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes



And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.



Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes



Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.



Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes



Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.



Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes



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



Colossians 3:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes



Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.



Matthew 6:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes



For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,



Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes



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



2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes



Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?



Acts 17:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes



For “‘In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.'



Luke 14:8-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes



“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”



Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes



“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...



Matthew 5:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes



But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.



Isaiah 43:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes



Who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:



1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes



Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.



James 4:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes



Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?



2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes



All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,



Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes



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



Galatians 5:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes



For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.



Romans 14:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes



So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.



John 13:34-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes



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. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”



2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes



That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.



Luke 11:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes



And forgive us our sins,for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”



John 10:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes



Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods'?