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 just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven:

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

Take heed to yourselves: If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.And if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him.

Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

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

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

And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:

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

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.

Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree.Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

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

That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Submit yourselves therefore 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, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you;Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, said the Lord.

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

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?Jesus said to him, I say not to you, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, said the Lord.Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also to you, if you from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all them that call on you.

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.

Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before,I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, said the Lord.Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

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

Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.

Why I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven to men.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, said the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you:

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