Bible Verses About Bitterness
Scripture on rooting out resentment — releasing offence, and choosing kindness.
Bitterness is a root that grows down while poisoning up — troubling the one who carries it most. Scripture calls us to put it away and choose forgiveness instead. These verses are for anyone tired of carrying an old wound.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Let all bitterness... be put away... be ye kind one to another.
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;
Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Avenge not yourselves... Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Charity... is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.
Bitterness punishes the one who holds it far more than the one who caused it. Pull the root up while it is young — hand the debt to God, choose kindness, and set yourself free.
