60 Bible verses about Forgiveness

When I truly repent and humble myself before God, I know He is faithful and just to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. It's through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross that I can receive this forgiveness. It's such a gift.

And you know, it makes me think about how God wants me to extend that same grace to others. He wants me to reflect His love to everyone around me, to be a reflection of Jesus in every moment. It's a challenge sometimes, but it's so important.

Forgiving others, I've found, is really about freeing myself. It's about healing those deep wounds and finding freedom from bitterness. It's not easy, but it's so worth it.

I want to practice gratitude and turn away from sin, coming to God with a repentant heart, knowing He will always forgive me. And hopefully, I can pay that forward and offer forgiveness just as freely as I've received it.

For if you will forgive men their sins, your heavenly Father also will forgive you your offenses.

But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your sins.

And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

For if you will forgive men their sins, your heavenly Father also will forgive you your offenses.

In him, we have redemption through his blood: the remission of sins in accord with the riches of his grace,

and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

A Psalm of David. Exult in the Lord, you just ones; together praise the upright.

You cover its heights with water. You set the clouds as your stairs. You walk upon the wings of the winds.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your sins.

Support one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive one another. For just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also must you do.

Therefore, let it be known to you, noble brothers, that through him is announced to you remission from sins and from everything by which you were not able to be justified in the law of Moses.

For this reason, I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven of him. But of him who will have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.

And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world.

For he has rescued us from the power of darkness, and he has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins.

For I will forgive their iniquities, and I will no longer remember their sins."

Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

And a prayer of faith will save the infirm, and the Lord will alleviate him. And if he has sins, these will be forgiven him.

And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.

Therefore, repent and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped away.

But as for me, I have been walking in my innocence. Redeem me, and have mercy on me.

Then Peter, drawing near to him, said: "Lord, how many times shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Even seven times?"

Jesus said to him: "I do not say to you, even seven times, but even seventy times seven times.

Above them, the flying things of the air will dwell. From the midst of the rocks, they will utter voices.

And then approach and accuse me, says the Lord. Then, if your sins are like scarlet, they shall be made white like snow; and if they are red like vermillion, they shall become white like wool.

"Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin."

But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

Christ died for us. Therefore, having been justified now by his blood, all the more so shall we be saved from wrath through him.

If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes,

so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions.

Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord."

So if an enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap burning coals upon his head.

Unto the end. The understanding of David.

When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.

Be attentive to yourselves. If your brother has sinned against you, correct him. And if he has repented, forgive him.

And if he has sinned against you seven times a day, and seven times a day has turned back to you, saying, 'I am sorry,' then forgive him."

And, brothers, if a man has been overtaken by any offense, you who are spiritual should instruct someone like this with a spirit of leniency, considering that you yourselves might also be tempted.

Whoever conceals an offense seeks friendships. Whoever repeats the words of another separates allies.

For this is my blood of the new covenant, which shall be shed for many as a remission of sins.

Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord."

not repaying evil with evil, nor slander with slander, but, to the contrary, repaying with blessings. For to this you have been called, so that you may possess the inheritance of a blessing.

Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forward and even forever.

I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.

I shall rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

I am not worthy to be called your son. Make me one of your hired hands.'

And rising up, he went to his father. But while he was still at a distance, his father saw him, and he was moved with compassion, and running to him, he fell upon his neck and kissed him.

Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do." And truly, dividing his garments, they cast lots.

Whoever hides his crimes will not be guided. But whoever will have confessed and abandoned them shall overtake mercy.

And I will no longer remember their sins and iniquities."

And rising up, he went to his father. But while he was still at a distance, his father saw him, and he was moved with compassion, and running to him, he fell upon his neck and kissed him.

And the son said to him: 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. Now I am not worthy to be called your son.'

But the father said to his servants: 'Quickly! Bring out the best robe, and clothe him with it. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.

And bring the fatted calf here, and kill it. And let us eat and hold a feast.

For this son of mine was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to feast.

Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord."

So if an enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap burning coals upon his head.

Do not allow evil to prevail, instead prevail over evil by means of goodness.

A Psalm of David. Exult in the Lord, you just ones; together praise the upright.

Confess to the Lord with stringed instruments; sing psalms to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.

Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father is also merciful.

Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."

The doctrine of a man is known through patience. And his glory is to pass beyond iniquities.

And when you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he enlivened you, together with him, forgiving you of all transgressions,

and wiping away the handwriting of the decree which was against us, which was contrary to us. And he has taken this away from your midst, affixing it to the Cross.

"Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.

For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you.

Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Be strengthened in faith, son; your sins are forgiven you."

And when he saw his faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil.

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