What Does the Bible Say About Forgiving Your Biological Father?

1 John 1:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

John 3:16 ESV / 8 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.

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5 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.

Luke 9:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 8:1-59 ESV / 3 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?” ...

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 20:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

34 Bible Verses about Forgiving Your Biological Father

1 John 1:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 9:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 20:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Forgiving Your Biological Father

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1 John 1:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 9:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 20:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote