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 confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive your deviations.

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

and forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.

Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

And if seven times in the day he sins against you, and seven times in the day returns to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.

Look on my affliction and my toil, and lift up all my sins.

For Your name’s sake, O Jehovah, even pardon my iniquity for it is great.

One who covers a transgression seeks love, but one repeating a matter separates from a friend.

A Psalm of David. A Contemplation. Blessed is he whose transgression is lifted, whose sin is covered.

He who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, having forgiven one another, even as also God forgave you in Christ.

Therefore, repent, and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the face of the Lord,

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they cast a lot. Psa. 22:18

Therefore let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One is proclaimed to you remission of sins.

And He Himself is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the whole world.

and My people, on whom My name is called, shall be humbled, and shall pray, and shall seek My face, and shall turn back from their evil ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Confess to one another the deviations from the Law, and pray for one another, that you may be healed; being very strong, the prayer of a righteous one works effectually.

O Jehovah, be merciful to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

And the prayer of faith will save the one being sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he may have committed sin, it will be forgiven him.

If You will keep iniquities, O Jehovah, O Lord, who shall stand?

But forgiveness is with You that You may be feared.

who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins;

Repent, therefore, from this wickedness of you, and petition God if perhaps you will be forgiven the thought of your heart.

I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My sake; and I will not remember your sins.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized, hanging Him on a tree.

This One God has exalted as a Ruler and Savior to His right hand, to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and I will not at all remember their sins and their lawlessnesses.” LXX-Jer. 38:31-34; MT-Jer. 31:31-34

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

bearing with one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also you should forgive.

I confessed my sin to You, and I have not hidden my iniquity; I said, I will confess over my transgression to Jehovah; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Therefore be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners! And purify your hearts, double-souled ones!

Be distressed, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy into shame.

Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

To the chief musician, A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness, according to the multitude of Your tender mercies; blot out my transgressions.

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

Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and remember there that your brother has something against you,

leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and no longer am I worthy to be called your son.

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

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

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, “Vengeance is Mine,” “I will repay,” says the Lord. Deut. 32:35

Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.

Then coming near to Him, Peter said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?

Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, Up to seven times, but, Up to seventy times seven.

And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner!

One covering his transgressions will not prosper, but the one confessing and forsaking them shall have pity.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, “Vengeance is Mine,” “I will repay,” says the Lord. Deut. 32:35

Then “if a hostile one to you hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.” Prov. 25:21, 22

So also My heavenly Father will do to you unless each of you from your hearts forgive his brother their deviations.

Let the wicked one forsake his way and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and let him turn back to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will multiply to pardon.

Brothers, if a man is taken in some deviation, you, the spiritual ones, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, that you not also be tempted.

For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all who call on You.

For this is My blood of the New Covenant which concerning many is being poured out for remission of sins.

But if your brother sin against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

Therefore, be humbled under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in time;

“casting all your anxiety onto Him,” because it matters to Him concerning you. LXX-Psa. 54:23; MT-Psa. 55:22

Likewise, younger ones be subject to older ones; and all being subject to one another. gird on humility, because God sets Himself “against proud ones, but He gives grace to humble ones”. Prov. 3:34

Eagerly pursue peace and holiness with all, without which no one will see the Lord,

doing nothing according to intrigue or self-glory, but in humility, esteeming one another, as being better than themselves;

Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching out for the things before,

I am pursuing a goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.

He has not done to us according to our sins, and has not rewarded us according to our iniquities.

For as the heavens are above the earth, so is His mercy mighty over those fearing Him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He put our transgressions from us.

not giving back evil for evil, or reviling against reviling; but, on the contrary, give blessing; knowing that you were called to this in order that you might inherit blessing.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, “Vengeance is Mine,” “I will repay,” says the Lord. Deut. 32:35

Then “if a hostile one to you hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.” Prov. 25:21, 22

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with good.

but God demonstrates His love to us in that we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The discretion of a man makes his anger long, and his glory is to pass over a transgression.

Foolish ones laugh at guilt offering, but favor is among the upright ones.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and we may find grace for timely help.

does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek the things of itself, is not easily provoked, does not impute evil;

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

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of deviations, according to the riches of His grace

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to remit sins, then He said to the paralytic, Rising up, lift up your cot and go to your house.

Because of this, I say to you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy concerning the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

First of all therefore, I exhort that petitions, prayers, supplications, and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men,

And you, being a dead one in the deviations and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made alive together with Him, having remitted all your deviations,

blotting out the handwriting in the ordinances against us, which was contrary to us, even He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross;

For I will confess my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my transgressions. According to Your mercy, You remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O Jehovah.

There is therefore now no condemnation to the ones in Christ Jesus, not walking according to flesh, but according to Spirit.

I will judge you, each man by his ways, O house of Israel, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn back from all your transgressions, and iniquity shall not be a stumbling-block to you.

for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

being justified undeservedly by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

So then if anyone is in Christ, that one is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have come to be new!

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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