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14 Bible Verses About Resentment

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Summary

  • Leviticus 19:18 forbids bearing a grudge in the same verse that commands “love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • “Root of bitterness” in Hebrews 12:15 echoes Deuteronomy 29:18, where the root is a person whose heart turns from the Lord to other gods.
  • Proverbs 20:22 and Romans 12:19 both tell the wronged person to leave repayment to God.
  • Jesus’ comment on forgiveness in Matthew 6:14-15 explains one line of the Lord’s Prayer: “as we also have forgiven our debtors.”
  • The parable of the older son ends without saying whether he joined the feast for his brother (Luke 15:25-32).

In the Bible, resentment appears as a grudge, bitterness or the wish to pay someone back, and the one who was wronged is told to let go and leave repayment to God. The law forbids bearing a grudge (Leviticus 19:18), Paul says to put away bitterness (Ephesians 4:31), and Jesus ties forgiving others to being forgiven (Matthew 6:14-15). Scripture also tells resentment’s stories: Cain, angry that God accepted his brother’s offering and not his (Genesis 4:5), and the older son…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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