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 say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.

Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:

And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.

Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.

Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

Of David. Maschil. Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.

And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:

He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:

Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.

Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. Selah.

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.

The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.

But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.

Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.

Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, then said he to the man who was ill, Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.

So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.

My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;

And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

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