74 Bible verses about asking for forgiveness

Facing up to my mistakes and saying "I'm sorry" takes guts. It means pushing past pride and arrogance, and showing true humility. It's not about whether I was the one hurt; it's about always trying to please God in everything I do.

Even if the other person doesn't apologize, and the Holy Spirit nudges me to say I'm sorry anyway, I know I'll receive God's grace and favor. It might be tough for a lot of folks, but choosing to forgive is truly liberating. It sets me free to move forward.

Holding onto grudges and refusing to forgive poisons my soul and can even cause physical pain. Forgiveness, on the other hand, is good for my body and soul. It's like a cleansing process that draws me closer to God.

It's so important to confess my sins and admit when I'm wrong to God, who frees me from all evil. His love and forgiveness cover every part of me; there's no limit to what He can forgive.

If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.

And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one : that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls.

And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed.

And let go to us our debts, as we let go to our debtors.

Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.

And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go.

See mine affliction and my labor, and let go to all my sins.

For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, and thou forgavest to mine iniquity; for it was much.

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

To David, wisdom. Happy the taking away of transgression, the covering of sin.

Forgiving to all thine iniquity, healing to all thy diseases.

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;

And remit to us our sins; for we onrselves also remit to every one indebted to us. 'And bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil.

And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.

Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that for him remission of sins is announced to you.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Expiate for thy people Israel whom thou didst redeem, O Jehovah, and thou shalt not give innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood was expiated to them.

And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.

If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?

For with thee, forgiveness; so that thou shalt be feared.

Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart be remitted to thee.

I, I am he wiping away thy transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew with your own hands, having hung him upon a tree.

This, God exalted, a Chief and Saviour, with his right hand to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more.

For if thou confess in thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart is believed for justice: and with the mouth is confessed for salvation.

(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)

I will make known to thee my sin, and mine iniquity I hid not I said, I will confess upon my transgression to Jehovah; and thou didst take away the iniquity of my sin. Silence.

Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions.

Multiply to wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

If therefore, thou bring thy gift upon the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother has anything against thee,

Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift.

And the son said to him, Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son.

For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you.

But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.

Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.

Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times?

And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.

He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.

Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.

So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.

The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.

For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.

And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:

Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord:

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

He did not to us according to our sins, and he did not recompense upon us according to our iniquities.

For as the height of the heavens above the earth, his mercy prevailed upon those fearing him.

As far off as the sunrisings from the west, he removed far from us our transgressions.

Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.

Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us.

The understanding of man will defer his anger: and his glory to pass over transgression.

The foolish will mock at guilt: and between the upright acceptance.

My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;

Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;

But that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to let go sins, (then he says to the paralytic), Having risen, take up thy bed and retire to thy house.

For this I say to you, All sin and blasphemy shall be let go to men; but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be let go to men.

I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men;

And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;

Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross

For I being prepared for halting, and my pain always before me.

The sins of my youth and my transgressions thou wilt not remember: according to thy mercy remember thou for me for sake of thy goodness, O Jehovah.

Therefore now no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus, walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For this I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back and withdraw from all your transgressions; and iniquity shall not be to you for a stumbling block.

For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;

Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:

So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new.

Create for me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst,

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

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