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Bible Verses About Resentment

This collection includes 50 passages about Resentment. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

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So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

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Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

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Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

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But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

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But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

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For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

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For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

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But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

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How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

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But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.

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For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

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But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

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Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

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Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

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But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

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Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

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Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

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Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

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