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95 Bible verses about forgiving wholeheartedly
For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;but if you do not forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will not forgive yours.
Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted; and forgive each other, just as in the Messiah God has also forgiven you.
Bear with one another; if anyone has a complaint against someone else, forgive him. Indeed, just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.
“Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. “Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Then Kefa came up and said to him, “Rabbi, how often can my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven times?”“No, not seven times,” answered Yeshua, “but seventy times seven!
And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive your offenses.”
He has not treated us as our sins deserve or paid us back for our offenses,because his mercy toward those who fear him is as far above earth as heaven.He has removed our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.
“Come now,” says Adonai, “let’s talk this over together. Even if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; even if they are red as crimson, they will be like wool.
If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.
By David. A maskil: How blessed are those whose offense is forgiven, those whose sin is covered!Many are the torments of the wicked, but grace surrounds those who trust in Adonai.Be glad in Adonai; rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you upright in heart!How blessed those to whom Adonai imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit!
He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy.
Yeshua said, “Father, forgive them; they don’t understand what they are doing.” They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.
Never seek revenge, my friends; instead, leave that to God’s anger; for in the Tanakh it is written, “Adonai says, ‘Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay.’”
Some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a mattress. When Yeshua saw their trust, he said to the paralyzed man, “Courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”
Anyone you forgive, I forgive too. For indeed, whatever I have forgiven, if there has been anything to forgive, has been for your sake in the presence of the Messiah
Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.On that day, if someone is on the roof with his belongings in his house, he must not go down to take them away. Similarly, if someone is in the field, he must not turn back —remember Lot’s wife!Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will stay alive.I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed — one will be taken and the other left behind.There will be two women grinding grain together — one will be taken and the other left behind.”They asked him, “Where, Lord?” He answered, “Wherever there’s a dead body, that’s where the vultures gather.”Also, if seven times in one day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I repent,’ you are to forgive him.”
For the leader. A psalm of David,Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, so that the bones you crushed can rejoice.Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my crimes.Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.Don’t thrust me away from your presence, don’t take your Ruach Kodesh away from me.Restore my joy in your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me.Then I will teach the wicked your ways, and sinners will return to you.Rescue me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness —Adonai, open my lips; then my mouth will praise you.For you don’t want sacrifices, or I would give them; you don’t take pleasure in burnt offerings.My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God, you won’t spurn a broken, chastened heart.when Natan the prophet came to him after his affair with Bat-Sheva:
since all have sinned and come short of earning God’s praise.By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.
But you, Adonai, are a merciful, compassionate God, slow to anger and rich in grace and truth.
I, yes I, am the one who blots out your offenses for my own sake; I will not remember your sins.
not repaying evil with evil or insult with insult, but, on the contrary, with blessing. For it is to this that you have been called, so that you may receive a blessing.
leave your gift where it is by the altar, and go, make peace with your brother. Then come back and offer your gift.
In union with him, through the shedding of his blood, we are set free — our sins are forgiven; this accords with the wealth of the grace
People with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.
My children, I am writing you these things so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we have Yeshua the Messiah, the Tzaddik, who pleads our cause with the Father.
He who conceals an offense promotes love, but he who harps on it can separate even close friends.
Be angry, but don’t sin — don’t let the sun go down before you have dealt with the cause of your anger;otherwise you leave room for the Adversary.
When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, “I will confess my offenses to Adonai”; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)
You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your “foreskin,” your old nature. But God made you alive along with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sins.
The prayer offered with trust will heal the one who is ill — the Lord will restore his health; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Let the wicked person abandon his way and the evil person his thoughts; let him return to Adonai, and he will have mercy on him; let him return to our God, for he will freely forgive.
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with feelings of compassion and with kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
This is how my heavenly Father will treat you, unless you each forgive your brother from your hearts.”
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.
So he got up and started back to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.
For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.
By David. A maskil: How blessed are those whose offense is forgiven, those whose sin is covered!
It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven.
For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.
But look! I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” He then said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, pick up your mattress, and go home!”
that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.
Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won’t be tempted too.
Because of this, I tell you that people will be forgiven any sin and blasphemy, but blaspheming the Ruach HaKodesh will not be forgiven.
After you went up into the heights, you led captivity captive, you took gifts among mankind, yes, even among the rebels, so that Yah, God, might live there.
Because of this, I tell you that her sins — which are many! — have been forgiven, because she loved much. But someone who has been forgiven only a little loves only a little.”
A fool gives vent to all his feelings, but the wise, thinking of afterwards, stills them.
In the same way, the blessing which David pronounces is on those whom God credits with righteousness apart from legalistic observances:“Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered over;Blessed is the man whose sin Adonai will not reckon against his account.”
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your grace and truth; for you have made your word [even] greater than the whole of your reputation.
if our hearts know something against us, God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Therefore, let us confidently approach the throne from which God gives grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace in our time of need.
A fool’s anger is known at once, but a cautious person slighted conceals his feelings.
Therefore, there is no longer any condemnation awaiting those who are in union with the Messiah Yeshua.
Therefore, let us approach the Holiest Place with a sincere heart, in the full assurance that comes from trusting — with our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness — by his wounds you were healed.
A song of ascents. By David: Adonai, I call to you from the depths;hear my cry, Adonai! Let your ears pay attention to the sound of my pleading.
For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve one another in love.
He who controls his temper is better than a war hero, he who rules his spirit better than he who captures a city.
but if you do not forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will not forgive yours.
Be angry, but don’t sin — don’t let the sun go down before you have dealt with the cause of your anger;