25 Bible Verses about Wronging Other People
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"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"
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.
No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.'
He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?
If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
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- Wronging (5 instances)