Bible Verses About Holding Grudges

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

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.

And be ye kind one to another , tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.