Ephesians 4:32

Instead of malice, believers are to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving, just as God in Christ forgave them. Our forgiveness of others flows from God's forgiveness of us.

Cross-references · 31

• Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
• Matt 6:14–15“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• Mark 11:25Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
• 1 Pet 3:8–9Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• 2 Cor 2:10Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
• Eph 5:1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• Luke 6:37Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
• Matt 6:12Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
• Luke 17:4If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
• 1 Cor 13:4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
• Ps 145:9Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
• Rom 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
• Rom 12:20–21Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
• 1 Jn 2:12I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
• Matt 18:21–35Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Ps 112:4–5Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
• 2 Cor 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Gen 50:17–18‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
• Prov 19:22That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.
• Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
• 2 Cor 6:6in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
• Ruth 2:20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Luke 11:4Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
• Prov 12:10A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
• Isa 57:1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
• Acts 28:2The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

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