We should be led by the Spirit.

God gives us the power to forgive.

God gives us the power to be forgiven.

We should seek to restore people and reconcile them to God.

We can choose to forgive.

2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

1 My child, if you co-sign a loan for a friend or guarantee the debt of someone you hardly know-- 2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said-- 3 quick, get out of it if you possibly can! You have placed yourself at your friend's mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.

26 Do not co-sign another person's note or put up a guarantee for someone else's loan.

Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people's sins; keep yourself pure.

Never be in a hurry about appointing an elder. Do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him." 5 And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."

"Then He will also say to those on the left hand,'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent.

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

6 Don't demand an audience with the king or push for a place among the great. 7 It is better to wait for an invitation than to be sent to the end of the line, publicly disgraced

31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

1Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, (smack him, put him down) you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.