147 Bible verses about the Importance of Forgiveness

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all.

Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many.

So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.

Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.

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

If possible of you, living peaceably with all men.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Hatred will excite strifes: and love will cover over all transgressions.

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

And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

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

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

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.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained.

Praise them driving you out: praise ye, and curse not.

If thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he thirst, give him water to drink:

For thou tookest up coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will recompense to thee.

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.

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

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

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

Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.

He will turn back, he will compassionate us: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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

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

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

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

Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth;

Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. '

Wherefore receive ye one another, as also Christ received us to the glory of God.

Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated.

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.

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

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.

And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.

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:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any one should boast.

Jehovah being compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and great of mercy.

He will not contend forever; he will not keep forever.

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

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.

Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.

And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;

For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

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

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

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

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:

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

For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little.

Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit

And Jesus having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins have been remitted to thee.

Oughtest thou not also to pity thy fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee

By mercy and truth iniquity shall be expiated: and in the fear of Jehovah a departing from evil.

I wandered as a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I forgat not thy commands.

Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good.

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

And as ye wish that men would do to you, and do you to them likewise.

A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.

In this all shall know that ye are disciples to me, if ye have love in one another.

Let him bend away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and follow it.

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.

Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?

And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;

That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

A soft answer will turn away wrath, and a word of pain will bring up anger.

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.

Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God.

Let none seek his own, but each another's.

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

Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.

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

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

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:

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;

And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.

Thou wilt purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash me and I shall be white above snow.

Then his lord, having called him, said unto him, O thou evil servant, I let go to you all that debt since thou besoughtest me:

Oughtest thou not also to pity thy fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

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.

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 almost all things are purified according to the law with blood; and without blood-letting there is no remission.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.

For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him.

And grace to God, giving us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us.

All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.

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.

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

Redeeming thy life from corruption, crowning thee with mercy and compassions.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother.

But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,

And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)

But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.

Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.

He not loving knows not God; for God is love.

For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

Terrible to fall into the hands of the living God.

And he having answered, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself.

In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:

Lest Jehovah shall see and it be evil in his eyes, and he turn back from him his anger.

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.

Desist from anger and forsake wrath: thou shalt not be angry only to do evil

And now remains faith, hope, love, these three; and the greater of these, love.

For the mountains shall remove and the hills shall waver; and my mercy shall not remove from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not waver, said Jehovah compassionating thee.

That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man;

For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,

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 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.

And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name:

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated.

The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.

Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered.

A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin.

And having taken the cup, and given thanks, he gave to them, saying, Drink of it all ye.

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

For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.

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

The man of mercy benefited his soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.

Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:

And the lord of that servant, having felt compassion, loosed him, and let go to him the money lent.

And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.

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

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

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.

And may the God of patience and his consolation give you to mind the same in one another according to Christ Jesus:

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.

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

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

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 whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.

So, I say to you, joy is in heaven before the messengers of God for one sinful changing the mind.

Be strong, and he will strengthen your heart, all ye waiting for Jehovah.

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

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.

I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

Jehovah is merciful and just, and our God compassionates

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

I wiped away as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: turn back to me for I redeemed thee.

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:

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

For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.

Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Thou wilt not, O Jehovah, shut up thy compassions from me: thy mercy and thy truth shall always guard me.

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,