90 Bible Verses about Get Forgiving

1 John 1:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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-seven times.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 6:37 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Mark 11:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 23:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Colossians 1:13-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

2 Corinthians 2:5-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to 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.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 8:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Daniel 9:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Acts 7:59-60 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Luke 23:33-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Matthew 6:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 43:25-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

James 5:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Hebrews 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Romans 12:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 17:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Acts 13:38-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Matthew 26:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 6:12-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 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.

Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Matthew 6:9-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. ...

Micah 7:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Joel 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Jeremiah 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 86:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

2 Chronicles 30:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 ...

1 John 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 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.

Colossians 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 10:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,

Luke 7:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Mark 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 3:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Micah 7:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Jeremiah 31:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 130:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Psalm 103:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Nehemiah 9:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.