
Petty definition
pet·ty | \ ˈpe-tē \
1. (Urban Dictionary) making things, events, or actions normal people dismiss as trivial or insignificant into excuses to be upset, uncooperative, childish, or stubborn.
Offense is the currency of our culture, but forgiveness is the currency of the Kingdom —Michael Todd
Proverbs 19:11 (ESV) Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 19:11 (NLT) Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.
1 John 4:20 (NASB) If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Matthew 22:36-40 (NASB) 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Not all guilt is created
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2 Corinthians 7:10 (NLT) For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.
Guilt is feeling bad for what you
James 1:23-24 (NIV) Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
If you can
Luke 22:61 (NIV) The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.”
You can’t change your
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” —Maya Angelou