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Bible Verses About Seeking Forgiveness

This collection includes 50 passages about Seeking Forgiveness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

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But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

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

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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

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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.

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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

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Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

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Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

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For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

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To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

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Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

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So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

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For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

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For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

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And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

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And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

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Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

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I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

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Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.

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And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

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For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sinβ€”; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

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Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

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O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

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I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

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Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

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And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

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Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

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

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