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 ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith 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.

As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

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

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

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

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

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

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

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

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

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, That thou mayest be feared.

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

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

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

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:

In whom 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 careth for you.

The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

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

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

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

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

But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye 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, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, 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 men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Let us therefore come boldly unto 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 upholdeth him with his hand.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

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 creature, 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 of great mercy.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: But love covereth all sins.

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: He is their strength in the time of trouble.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful.

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

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

Submit yourselves therefore 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 which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, All ye that hope in the LORD.

and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

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

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.

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

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through 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 of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them 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.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;