1. Proverbs 19:11
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offence.
2. Ecclesiastes 7:21-22
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.
3. James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
4. Luke 7:23
And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
5. Matthew 18:15-17
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
6. James 1:12
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
7. 2 Timothy 2:24
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,
8. Luke 6:22-23
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
9. Proverbs 9:7-9
Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
10. John 15:18
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
11. Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarrelling is like the bars of a castle.
12. Exodus 14:14
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
13. Psalm 119:165
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
14. 1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
15. Proverbs 12:16
The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
16. Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
17. 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
18. 2 Corinthians 12:10
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
19. Matthew 11:6
And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
20. Proverbs 29:11
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
21. John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
22. Isaiah 32:17
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
23. 2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
24. Proverbs 23:9
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
25. Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
26. Matthew 24:10
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
27. Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
28. 1 John 5:4
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
