99 Bible Verses about Self-Forgiveness

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

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

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

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

I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

“Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.

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

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

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

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

Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.

Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

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

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.

Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots.

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholds him with His hand.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Then Peter came to Him and 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 above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; He is their strength in the time of trouble.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord.

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered;

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;