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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
985 votes

“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

James 5:16
640 votes

“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
521 votes

“‹But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.›”

Colossians 3:13
315 votes

“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
156 votes

“‹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
155 votes

“¶ 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
126 votes

“Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”

Psalms 103:12
104 votes

“As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”

Proverbs 10:12
79 votes

“¶ Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”

Ephesians 1:7
78 votes

“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”

Psalms 103:10
68 votes

“He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.”

Psalms 103:11
62 votes

“For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy toward them that fear him.”

Psalms 103:14
59 votes

“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.”

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