If you are struggling to mend a broken relationship, today’s content is for you. I share bible verses that provide wisdom and guidance on reconciliation, forgiveness, healing and moving forward. These verses will help you better understand what scripture says about restoring damaged relationships between loved ones, family members, friends and church communities. Use these as inspiration and counsel during the repair process.
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Dear friends, Relationships are central to our human experience, yet they can be fragile. When hurt, anger or bitterness drives a wedge between us and someone we once cherished, the pain runs deep. Thankfully, scripture offers wisdom and solace during such trials.
The Bible teaches us that with openness, empathy and effort, reconciliation is possible. Though the path is rarely smooth, small acts of forgiveness and grace can heal breaches over time. Scripture urges us to seek peace while setting healthy boundaries.
Scripture calls on us to humbly seek peace with one another. It asks us to be patient, to return kindness for malice, and to leave judgment to God alone. As we walk this path, the Holy Spirit moves within our spirits to restore what was lost. Step by step, we move forward to embrace once more. Higher still, we rise to the divine ideal of unconditional love that undergirds all healthy bonds between people.
Dear friends, now let’s explore the Bible verses below which provide Godly counsel on restoring broken relationships through forgiveness, reconciliation and healing of past wounds. May we open our ears and hearts to receive this guidance with grace.
Seeking Forgiveness and Letting Go of Anger:
Matthew 6:14-15
“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses”
Colossians 3:13
“Forbearing one another, forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye”
Ephesians 4:31-32
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you”
Proverbs 17:9
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends”
Rebuilding Trust Over Time:
Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, he shall direct thy paths”
Psalm 37:3-5
“Trust in the Lord , do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord : he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in him; he shall bring it to pass”
Proverbs 16:20
“He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: whoso trusteth in the Lord , happy is he”
1 Corinthians 13:6-7
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things”
Making a Commitment to Change:
Romans 12:2
“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, perfect, will of God”
Ezekiel 36:26
“A new heart also will I give you, a new spirit will I put within you: I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, I will give you an heart of flesh”
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”
James 1:22
“But be ye doers of the word, not hearers only, deceiving your own selves”
Praying for Reconciliation and Healing:
James 5:16
“Confess your faults one to another, pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”
Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; saveth such as be of a contrite spirit”
2 Chronicles 7:14
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, will heal their land”
Ephesians 4:2-3
“With all lowliness meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace”
Moving Forward with Realistic Expectations:
Romans 8:28
“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”
Philippians 3:13-14
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”
Isaiah 43:18-19
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert”
Hebrews 12:1-2
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, is set down at the right hand of the throne of God”
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