20 Bible Verses About Unforgiveness

Jesus ties being forgiven by God to forgiving others. After the Lord’s Prayer he says, “if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:15), and he ends the parable of the unforgiving servant on the same point (Matthew 18:35). The letters warn against a “root of bitterness” (Hebrews 12:15) and against letting “the sun go down on your anger” (Ephesians 4:26), and they give the pattern for forgiving: “as God in Christ…