To be forgiven also bears responsibility. The route from estrangement to reconciliation is through the door of repentance into the unending hallway of forgiveness that leads to eternal salvation. The neglect of forgiveness has undesirable consequences. Soon revenge becomes acrid and miserable. While God stands at the door in mercy and knocks, revenge broods over injuries and magnifies them, and so becomes deaf to God's knocking.
Revenge delivers itself to the tormentors.
But there was One who into earth's brackish waters poured a crimson flood to make them sweet. Never was any Man more unjustly smitten. The world He loved drove nails into His hands and feet.