Forgiveness

Mark 11:25 ESV / 976 helpful votes

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your
Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Matthew 6:15 ESV / 948 helpful votes

But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 945 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 872 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 621 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I
forgive him? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but
seventy times seven.

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 517 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you
do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

James 5:16 ESV / 426 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 416 helpful votes

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Luke 6:37 ESV / 346 helpful votes

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive,
and you will be forgiven;

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 326 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the
Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Psalm 103:10-14 ESV / 291 helpful votes

He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as
high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father
shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he
knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 277 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let
you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of
escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 241 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 172 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 1:9-10 ESV / 161 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 155 helpful votes

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

Luke 7:44-50 ESV / 145 helpful votes

Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I entered your
house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them
with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my
feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore
I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgivenfor she loved much. But he who is forgiven
little, loves little. And he said to her, Your sins are forgiven. ...

John 13:34 ESV / 141 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also
are to love one another.

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 126 helpful votes

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, I will confess my
transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

1 John 1:8 ESV / 124 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 119 helpful votes

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 118 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them
will obtain mercy.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 103 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 97 helpful votes

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 93 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Matthew 26:28 ESV / 89 helpful votes

For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does
sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Acts 10:43 ESV / 81 helpful votes

To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of
sins through his name.

1 Kings 8:46-48 ESV / 73 helpful votes

If they sin against youfor there is no one who does not sinand you are angry with them and
give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or
near, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent
and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and have acted
perversely and wickedly, if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of
their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to
their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,

Romans 8:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 12:20 ESV / 66 helpful votes

To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink;
for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.

Jeremiah 31:34 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord,
for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Psalm 51:2-5 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my
transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what
is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

James 2:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as
yourself, you are doing well.

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and
if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, I repent, you
must forgive him.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of
God,

2 Corinthians 2:5-11 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measurenot to put it
too severelyto all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you
should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and
know whether you are obedient in everything. ...

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 53 helpful votes

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

1 Kings 8:46-50 ESV / 53 helpful votes

If they sin against youfor there is no one who does not sinand you are angry with them and
give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or
near, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent
and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and have acted
perversely and wickedly, if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of
their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to
their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, then
hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause and

forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have
committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them
captive, that they may have compassion on them

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 52 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Psalm 38:3-4 ESV / 52 helpful votes

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones
because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too
heavy for me.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the
chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

Micah 7:18-20 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his
inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will
again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as
you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.

Psalm 130:3 ESV / 46 helpful votes

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 40:12 ESV / 46 helpful votes

For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot
see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Proverbs 15:30 ESV / 43 helpful votes

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who
does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did
we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in
your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of
lawlessness.

Matthew 18:33-35 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you? And in
anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my
heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.

Romans 12:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 39 helpful votes

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be
devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Romans 3:21-26 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and
the Prophets bear witness to it the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all
who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God
put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's
righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ...

Romans 6:4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised
from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Genesis 50:15-21 ESV / 36 helpful votes

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate
us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him. So they sent a message to Joseph, saying,
Your father gave this command before he died, Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression
of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you. And now, please forgive the
transgression of the servants of the God of your father. Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, Behold, we are your servants. But
Joseph said to them, Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? ...

Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Isaiah 45:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a
spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Luke 23:34 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they cast lots to
divide his garments.

Matthew 18:23-35 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts
with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand
talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children
and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him,
Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything. And out of pity for him, the master of
that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ...

Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I
forgive him? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but
seventy times seven. Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished
to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed
him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his
wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...

Deuteronomy 24:16 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death
because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

Hosea 11:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a
man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

Psalm 38:5-6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness, I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.

John 8:1-11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the
people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a
woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, Teacher,
this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to
stone such women. So what do you say? ...

Daniel 9:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

Job 42:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave
Job twice as much as he had before.

Hosea 3:4-5 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or
pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the
Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness
in the latter days.

Ezekiel 18:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he
should turn from his way and live?

Revelation 5:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and
wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!

Isaiah 59:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, declares the
Lord.

Hosea 13:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me
there is no savior.

2 Corinthians 5:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation;

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 20 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came
from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were
sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave
them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation
under heaven. ...

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the
earth beneath; there is no other.

Acts 9:11-16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And the Lord said to him, Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas
look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, and he has seen in a vision a man
named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight. But Ananias
answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your
saints at Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your
name. But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name
before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. ...

Zechariah 1:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and
I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your
sins.

Psalm 51:1-10 ESV / 18 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone
in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your
abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you
only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me. ...

Revelation 1:1-21:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must
soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to
the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one
who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what
is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and
peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are
before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the
ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Ephesians 3:1-21 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles assuming that you
have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was
made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive
my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other
generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. ...

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

John 15:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Psalm 25:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

Ephesians 2:4-9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we
were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christby grace you have been saved
and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so
that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward
us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own
doing; it is the gift of God, ...

Psalm 109:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes

In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us
spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Psalm 109:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be
glad!

2 Samuel 19:26-28 ESV / 15 helpful votes

He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, I will
saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king. For your servant is lame.
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God;
do therefore what seems good to you. For all my father's house were but men doomed to death
before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What
further right have I, then, to cry to the king?

1 Corinthians 16:1-24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also
are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as
he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. And when I arrive, I will send

those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem. If it seems advisable that I
should go also, they will accompany me. I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I
intend to pass through Macedonia, ...

Luke 23:32 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.

Isaiah 46:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

Isaiah 44:22-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I
have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth;
break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed
Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.

Isaiah 38:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Matthew 5:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come
and offer your gift.