Forgiveness

Bible Verses about Forgiveness

• Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

  2 Corinthians 2:8·Verse page·Read context

• Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

  2 Corinthians 8:1·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

  Ephesians 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ, to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

  Ephesians 3:8·Verse page·Read context

• Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

  Philippians 1:29·Verse page·Read context

• Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

  Colossians 4:6·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

  2 Thessalonians 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

  2 Thessalonians 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

  Philemon 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

  Philemon 1:8·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

  1 Peter 1:13·Verse page·Read context

• If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

  1 Peter 1:17·Verse page·Read context

• Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

  1 Peter 5:5·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

  2 Peter 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

  2 Peter 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

  Revelation 1:4·Verse page·Read context

• The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal offering.'"

  Leviticus 5:13·Verse page·Read context

• Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, 'The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'

  Numbers 14:17·Verse page·Read context

• 'The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.' Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." The LORD said, "I have pardoned according to your word;

  Numbers 14:18·Verse page·Read context

• Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,

  Deuteronomy 13:17·Verse page·Read context

• Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?"

  2 Samuel 2:22·Verse page·Read context

• Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place. You came but yesterday, and should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take your brothers with you. May mercy and truth be with you."

  2 Samuel 15:19·Verse page·Read context

• "LORD God, don't turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant."

  2 Chronicles 6:42·Verse page·Read context

• Increase my honor and comfort me again. I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to you, for you have redeemed me.

  Psalms 71:21·Verse page·Read context

• Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Relent, LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

  Psalms 90:11·Verse page·Read context

• Praise the LORD, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

  Psalms 103:2·Verse page·Read context

• Praise the LORD, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

  Psalms 103:2·Verse page·Read context

• By David. Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! Praise the LORD, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

  Psalms 103:1·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth.

  Isaiah 19:22·Verse page·Read context

• Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. Or else let them take hold of my strength. Let him make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.

  Isaiah 27:4·Verse page·Read context

• Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow." "Come now, and let's reason together," says the LORD: "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land.

  Isaiah 1:17·Verse page·Read context

• "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins."

  Isaiah 40:2·Verse page·Read context

• Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. Don't be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth--

  Isaiah 43:4·Verse page·Read context

• Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

  Isaiah 49:24·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD says: "If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then I will also reject the offspring of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I won't take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them."

  Jeremiah 33:25·Verse page·Read context

• Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don't be afraid of him,' says the LORD, 'for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. I will have mercy on you, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. "But if you say, 'We will not dwell in this land,' so that you don't obey the LORD your God's voice,

  Jeremiah 42:11·Verse page·Read context

• "Therefore the Lord GOD says: 'Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name. They will forget their shame and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land. No one will make them afraid

  Ezekiel 39:25·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility."

  Daniel 4:27·Verse page·Read context

• Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name."

  Daniel 9:19·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

  Hosea 3:1·Verse page·Read context

• Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy.

  Hosea 14:3·Verse page·Read context

• Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips. Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."

  Hosea 14:2·Verse page·Read context

• Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips. Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."

  Hosea 14:1·Verse page·Read context

• Then the LORD's angel replied, "O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

  Zechariah 1:12·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore the LORD says: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."'

  Zechariah 1:16·Verse page·Read context

• From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

  Malachi 3:7·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."

  Matthew 9:2·Verse page·Read context

• Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"

  Matthew 18:21·Verse page·Read context

• Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

  Matthew 18:33·Verse page·Read context

• Then his lord called him in and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

  Matthew 18:32·Verse page·Read context

• Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?' His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him. So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

  Matthew 18:33·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."

  Mark 2:5·Verse page·Read context

• When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

  Mark 2:17·Verse page·Read context

• As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you."

  Mark 5:18·Verse page·Read context

• Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions."

  Mark 11:25·Verse page·Read context

• Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions." They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him,

  Mark 11:25·Verse page·Read context

• Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John."

  Luke 1:58·Verse page·Read context

• (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old), salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,

  Luke 1:70·Verse page·Read context

• Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

  Luke 5:20·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

  Luke 5:31·Verse page·Read context

• "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  Luke 6:27·Verse page·Read context

• When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

  Luke 7:42·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little."

  Luke 7:47·Verse page·Read context

• When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

  Luke 7:42·Verse page·Read context

• Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

  Luke 7:49·Verse page·Read context

• "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

  Luke 7:41·Verse page·Read context

• Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?" He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

  Luke 10:36·Verse page·Read context

• On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.' Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?" He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

  Luke 10:35·Verse page·Read context

• "He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him. The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

  Luke 15:20·Verse page·Read context

• As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

  Luke 17:11·Verse page·Read context

• The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

  Luke 18:11·Verse page·Read context

• When they came to the place that is called "The Skull", they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

  Luke 23:33·Verse page·Read context

• All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins."

  Acts 10:43·Verse page·Read context

• When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him; and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

  Acts 18:27·Verse page·Read context

• Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

  Acts 22:16·Verse page·Read context

• Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

  Romans 5:1·Verse page·Read context

• As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

  Romans 9:25·Verse page·Read context

• What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—

  Romans 9:22·Verse page·Read context

• What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory— us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

  Romans 9:22·Verse page·Read context

• Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

  Romans 12:19·Verse page·Read context

• Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name."

  Romans 15:8·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name."

  Romans 15:7·Verse page·Read context

• Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name." Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."

  Romans 15:8·Verse page·Read context

• Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit. I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

  Romans 15:13·Verse page·Read context

• But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

  Isaiah 53:5·Verse page·Read context