Scripture Passages About Forgiveness

Matthew 6:12

• ...and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors...

Matthew 6:14-15 

• If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions. 

Matthew 18:21-22

• Then Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times." 

Mark 11:25

• When you stand to pray, forgive anyone against whom you have a grievance, so that your heavenly Father may in turn forgive you your transgressions.

Luke 6:27-29

• But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.

Luke 6:37

• Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.

Luke 23:34

• Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." They divided his garments by casting lots.

1 Corinthians 10-13

• “Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer. These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall. No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it.

1 John 9

• No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.

Acts 2:38

• 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.”

Colossians 3:13

• ...bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do.

Ephesians 1:7

• In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace.

James 5:16

• “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.”

Genesis 50:17

• Thus you shall say to Joseph: Please forgive the criminal wrongdoing of your brothers, who treated you harmfully.’ So now please forgive the crime that we, the servants of the God of your father, committed.” When they said this to him, Joseph broke into tears.”

Exodus 34:6-7

• “So the LORD passed before him and proclaimed: The LORD, the LORD, a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love and fidelity,  continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!

Leviticus 19:18

• “Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”

Numbers 14:18

• “The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents’ iniquity.”

2 Chronicles 7:14

• “if then my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and heal their land.”

Psalms 32:5

• “Then I declared my sin to you; my guilt I did not hide. I said, “I confess my transgression to the LORD,” and you took away the guilt of my sin.”

Proverbs 10:12

• “Hatred stirs up disputes, but love covers all offenses.”

Proverbs 24-29

• “Do not say, “As they did to me, so will I do to them; I will repay them according to their deeds.”

Proverbs 25:21-22

• If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat, if thirsty, give something to drink; for live coals you will heap on their heads, and the LORD will vindicate you.”

Proverbs 28:13

• “Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.”

Isaiah 5:5-7

• “Now, I will let you know what I am going to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled! Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but will be overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to rain upon it. The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry.