Bible Verses about “resentment”
The Bible contains 38 verses about resentment across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.”
“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'”
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”
“for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;”
“Don'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.”
“But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”
“Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.”
“Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;”
“As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.”
“looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;”
“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?”
“Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;”
“Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.”
“You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.”
“My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!”
“My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. By Solomon.”
“For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.”
“Increase my honor, and comfort me again.”
“I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.”