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Bible Verses about “forgiving one another”

The Bible contains 44 verses about forgiving one another across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 Corinthians 13:4
1213 votes

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”

1 John 1:9
1186 votes

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

1 Corinthians 13:5
1176 votes

“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”

1 Corinthians 13:7
1140 votes

“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

1 Corinthians 13:6
1112 votes

“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”

Proverbs 3:5
1028 votes

“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”

Ephesians 4:32
985 votes

“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”

1 Corinthians 13:8
733 votes

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”

1 Corinthians 13:11
616 votes

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

1 Corinthians 13:13
586 votes

“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:12
542 votes

“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

Ephesians 4:31
535 votes

“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”

1 Corinthians 13:2
531 votes

“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”

1 Corinthians 13:10
530 votes

“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”

Matthew 6:14
529 votes

“"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”

1 Corinthians 13:3
528 votes

“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”

1 Corinthians 13:9
521 votes

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”

1 Corinthians 13:1
508 votes

“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”

Proverbs 15:1
456 votes

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

Ephesians 4:26
409 votes

“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”

Colossians 3:13
315 votes

“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.”

Luke 6:37
238 votes

“Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.”

Luke 6:27
231 votes

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

Colossians 3:12
231 votes

“Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;”

Mark 11:25
156 votes

“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.”

Matthew 18:21
155 votes

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

Matthew 18:22
155 votes

“Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.”

Luke 17:3
147 votes

“Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.”

Luke 17:4
116 votes

“If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."”

Matthew 18:28
64 votes

“"But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'”

Matthew 18:35
63 votes

“So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."”

Matthew 18:23
61 votes

“Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.”

Matthew 18:24
61 votes

“When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.”

Matthew 18:25
61 votes

“But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.”

Matthew 18:26
61 votes

“The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'”

Matthew 18:27
61 votes

“The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.”

Matthew 18:29
61 votes

“"So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'”

Matthew 18:30
61 votes

“He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.”

Matthew 18:31
61 votes

“So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.”

Matthew 18:32
61 votes

“Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.”

Matthew 18:33
61 votes

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

Matthew 18:34
61 votes

“His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.”

Proverbs 25:21
18 votes

“If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:”

Proverbs 25:22
14 votes

“for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.”

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