Bible verses about forgiveness
What Scripture says about being forgiven, and about forgiving other people.
The best-known verses about forgiveness
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- 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Matt 6:14
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
- Matt 6:15
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
- Matt 18:21
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
- Matt 18:22
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Eph 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
- Col 3:13
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
- Mark 11:25
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
- Luke 6:37
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
- Luke 23:34
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
- Ps 32:1
A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- Ps 32:5
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.
- Ps 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
- Ps 51:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath–sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
- Ps 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Isa 1:18
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.
- Isa 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- Mic 7:18
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.
- Mic 7:19
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.
- Acts 3:19
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
- Rom 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
- Heb 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
- Prov 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- Dan 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
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20 further passages on the same theme.
- Ps 4:1
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
- Ps 5:7
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
- Ps 6:2
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- Prov 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- Prov 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- Prov 6:35
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
- Isa 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
- Isa 16:5
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
- Isa 19:22
And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
- Matt 5:7
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
- Mark 1:41
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
- Mark 2:5
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
- Mark 2:7
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
- Luke 1:58
And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
- Luke 1:72
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
- Luke 1:78
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
- Rom 4:7
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
- Rom 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Rom 9:15
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
- 1 Cor 7:25
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.