When we are wronged by others, Scripture encourages us to respond with forgiveness and love. In Mark 11:25, Jesus teaches that unforgiveness can hinder our relationship with God, emphasizing the importance of letting go of grudges. The apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13 that even the greatest spiritual gifts are worthless without love, which "keeps no record of wrongs." Meanwhile, 2 Peter 3:9 and 1 John 1:9 remind us that God is patient and desires all people to come to repentance, offering us a model for responding to hurt with compassion and forgiveness.
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And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well. ”
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”