Bible Verses About Forgiveness
This collection includes 10 passages about Forgiveness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Reading context: Paul addresses kindness and forgiveness in instructions about community conduct.
Scripture Passages
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Reading context: Bearing with one another and forgiving appear together in Paul’s instructions for community life.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Reading context: Jesus connects forgiveness with the prayer he has just taught; include the adjacent warning and its setting.
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
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This collection includes receiving forgiveness and extending it to others. The passages speak from different settings: prayer, community life, confession, and Jesus’ teaching. Read the setting before applying a verse to a difficult relationship. The quotation labels identify the Bible version. Use a reference link to read its chapter and compare the wording with the commentary.
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Ephesians 4:32 concludes teaching about conduct within the community. Forgiveness should not be used to dismiss harm or to demand that someone ignore boundaries.
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