What Does the Bible Say About Asking For Forgivness?

1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 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 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 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.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

1 John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Luke 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 2 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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Romans 11:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

Romans 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Acts 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 16:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;

John 10:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...

John 8:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

34 Bible Verses about Asking For Forgivness

1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 11:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Acts 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 16:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 10:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Asking For Forgivness

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1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 11:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 16:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 10:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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John 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote