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Bible Verses about “forgiveness

The Bible contains 18 verses about forgiveness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 John 1:9
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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 4:32
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And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

James 5:16
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Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Matthew 6:14
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‹For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:›

Matthew 6:15
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‹But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.›

Colossians 3:13
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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.

Luke 6:37
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¶ ‹Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:›

Luke 6:27
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¶ ‹But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,›

Mark 11:25
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‹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.›

Matthew 18:21
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¶ Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Matthew 18:22
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Jesus saith unto him, ‹I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.›

Psalms 103:13
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Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

Psalms 103:12
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As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Proverbs 10:12
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¶ Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Ephesians 1:7
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In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Psalms 103:10
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He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Psalms 103:11
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For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Psalms 103:14
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For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.

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