2Cor 2:7 - So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow . Forgiveness is from the Greek word aphesis meaning freedom; pardon, deliverance, liberty, remission. Forgive is defined according to the English Dictionary as; to pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment. While Forgiveness is defined as readiness to forgive, the action of forgiving. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Eph 4:26, 29-32 - Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all ma...