16 Bible Verses About Forgiveness in Marriage

The New Testament letters that give instructions to husbands and wives tell the whole church to forgive one another as God forgave them. Colossians 3:13 (“Forgive as the Lord forgave you”) comes six verses before “Husbands, love your wives” (Colossians 3:19), and Ephesians 4:32 leads into Ephesians 5 on marriage. First Peter 3:8-9 follows its instructions to wives and husbands with “Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult.” Jesus’ sayings in Matthew 18:21-22 and Matthew 6:14-15 set…