Bible Verses About Forgiveness and Healing
The link between releasing bitterness and finding emotional and spiritual wholeness.
There is a profound link between releasing bitterness and finding the emotional wholeness your soul longings for. As the weight of unforgiveness is lifted, you open the way for God’s healing power to mend your broken places. Experience the restoration that only comes through a heart that has chosen to let go.
Key Passages
"Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you."
"The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous."
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."
"The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry."
"When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long."
"For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."
"I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah."
"He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds."
"A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones."
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"
"So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses."
"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."
"If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."
"Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
"Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
"To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;"
"Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"
"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you."
"Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."
"And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful."
"Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:"
"Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;"
"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
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