99 Bible Verses about Self-Forgiveness

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

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?

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

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

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.

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

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

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:

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

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.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

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

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

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

And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

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:

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.

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.

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.

God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

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.

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:

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

Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

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.

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

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.

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:

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

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.

Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

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.

And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

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.

But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.

There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

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

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

Put away fear and let your heart be strong, all you whose hope is in the Lord.

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;