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99 Bible Verses about Self-Forgiveness
If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.
Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted; and forgive each other, just as in the Messiah God has also forgiven you.
“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.
Who is a God like you, pardoning the sin and overlooking the crimes of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in grace.He will again have compassion on us, he will subdue our iniquities. You will throw all their sins into the depths of the sea.
I, yes I, am the one who blots out your offenses for my own sake; I will not remember your sins.
Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new!
Therefore, there is no longer any condemnation awaiting those who are in union with the Messiah Yeshua.
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.
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)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.
He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy.
“Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. “Forgive, and you 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.
Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand?But with you there is forgiveness, so that you will be feared.
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.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through him, the world might be saved.
but he told me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is brought to perfection in weakness.” Therefore, I am very happy to boast about my weaknesses, in order that the Messiah’s power will rest upon me.
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.
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
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.”
For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.
This is what Adonai says, who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar — Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name:
Don’t remember my youthful sins or transgressions; but remember me according to your grace for the sake of your goodness, Adonai.
So here is a statement you can trust, one that fully deserves to be accepted: the Messiah came into the world to save sinners, and I’m the number one sinner!
Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been set apart for God, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and the Spirit of our God.
But now this is what Adonai says, he who created you, Ya‘akov, he who formed you, Isra’el: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I am calling you by your name; you are mine.
In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the ‘olam hazeh. Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.
then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!
Yeshua said, “Father, forgive them; they don’t understand what they are doing.” They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.
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.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins.
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.
For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift.
Like a thick cloud, I wipe away your offenses; like a cloud, your sins. Come back to me, for I have redeemed you.”
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers, neither what exists nor what is coming,neither powers above nor powers below, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which comes to us through the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
When the Messiah was executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
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!
Brothers, I, for my part, do not think of myself as having yet gotten hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind me and straining forward toward what lies ahead,I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua.
For with the heart one goes on trusting and thus continues toward righteousness, while with the mouth one keeps on making public acknowledgement and thus continues toward deliverance.
There is no fear in love. On the contrary, love that has achieved its goal gets rid of fear, because fear has to do with punishment; the person who keeps fearing has not been brought to maturity in regard to love.
And it is all from God, who through the Messiah has reconciled us to himself and has given us the work of that reconciliation,
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.
so that we would bring him praise commensurate with the glory of the grace he gave us through the Beloved One.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
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to bring you back again into fear; on the contrary, you received the Spirit, who makes us sons and by whose power we cry out, “Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”).
God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.”
For since he himself suffered death when he was put to the test, he is able to help those who are being tested now.
We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
May God, the source of hope, fill you completely with joy and shalom as you continue trusting, so that by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh you may overflow with hope.
But by God’s grace I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain; on the contrary, I have worked harder than all of them, although it was not I but the grace of God with me.
Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever hears what I am saying and trusts the One who sent me has eternal life — that is, he will not come up for judgment but has already crossed over from death to life!
By David. A maskil: How blessed are those whose offense is forgiven, those whose sin is covered!
Therefore, submit to God. Moreover, take a stand against the Adversary, and he will flee from you.
And I am sure of this: that the One who began a good work among you will keep it growing until it is completed on the Day of the Messiah Yeshua.
Love Adonai, you faithful of his. Adonai preserves the loyal, but the proud he repays in full.
and this hope does not let us down, because God’s love for us has already been poured out in our hearts through the Ruach HaKodesh who has been given to us.
I pray that from the treasures of his glory he will empower you with inner strength by his Spirit,
For God gave us a Spirit who produces not timidity, but power, love and self-discipline.
And may God, the source of encouragement and patience, give you the same attitude among yourselves as the Messiah Yeshua had,
So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment — that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement — and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us,
You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, God, who is full of grace, the one who called you to his eternal glory in union with the Messiah, will himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm.
What he said sounded smoother than butter, but his heart was at war. His words seemed more soothing than oil, but in fact they were sharp swords.
but those who hope in Adonai will renew their strength, they will soar aloft as with eagles’ wings; when they are running they won’t grow weary, when they are walking they won’t get tired.
I thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; your works are wonders — I know this very well.
Praised be God, Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, compassionate Father, God of all encouragement and comfort;who encourages us in all our trials, so that we can encourage others in whatever trials they may be undergoing with the encouragement we ourselves have received from God.
Trust in Adonai with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him; then he will level your paths.
For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. On ‘alamot [high-pitched musical instruments?]. A song:
Therefore, encourage each other, and build each other up — just as you are doing.
For everything written in the past was written to teach us, so that with the encouragement of the Tanakh we might patiently hold on to our hope.
By David: Adonai is my light and salvation; whom do I need to fear? Adonai is the stronghold of my life; of whom should I be afraid?
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
In conclusion, brothers, focus your thoughts on what is true, noble, righteous, pure, lovable or admirable, on some virtue or on something praiseworthy.
In our hearts we felt we were under sentence of death. However, this was to get us to rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead!
“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.”
Don’t be afraid, for I am with you; don’t be distressed, for I am your God. I give you strength, I give you help, I support you with my victorious right hand.
Furthermore, we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called in accordance with his purpose;
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.
Therefore, get your minds ready for work, keep yourselves under control, and fix your hopes fully on the gift you will receive when Yeshua the Messiah is revealed.