100 Bible Verses About Forgiveness
Bible verses about Forgiveness
Delve into the boundless grace offered through forgiveness, a cornerstone of Christian faith illuminated throughout scripture. Exploring Bible verses about forgiveness reveals not only God's immeasurable compassion for us, but also the transformative power we unlock when we extend that same grace to others. Understanding forgiveness, as taught in the Bible, transcends simple pardon; it's a spiritual journey towards healing, reconciliation, and freedom from the burdens of resentment. Let these verses guide you to embrace forgiveness, mirroring Christ's love and fostering deeper connections with God and your fellow human beings, ultimately paving the path to inner peace and spiritual growth.
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Mark 16:14 (KJV)
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
Now I tell you before it cometh, that when it hath come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he].
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labor to him?
and the battle is there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplieth to devour among the people more than those whom the sword hath devoured in that day.
how he went into the house of God, (at Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'
Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth it for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish it .
And he said to them, This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'
Son of man, set thy face towards the south, and drop [thy word] towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.
For I have told him, that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth: because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
But though [I am] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
seven days ye bring near a fire-offering to Jehovah, on the eighth day ye have a holy convocation, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; it is a restraint, ye do no servile work.
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
And Naomi saith to her two daughters-in-law, Go, turn back, each to the house of her mother; Jehovah doth with you kindness as ye have done with the dead, and with me;
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor man that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Behold, I give to you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold--good grace.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
But ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.
In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea-shore.
[But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? tempting him.
in regard to which ye are able, reading it , to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every heave-offering of all, of all your heave-offerings, are the priests': and the first of your dough ye give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.
As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things--they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,
And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself.
And she riseth, she and her daughters-in-law, and turneth back from the fields of Moab, for she hath heard in the fields of Moab that God hath looked after His people, --to give to them bread.
Then these men assembled to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is], That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin-offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
And Esther saith, If to the king it be good, let it be given also to-morrow, to the Jews who are in Shushan, to do according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they hang on the tree.'
But, in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have ye here any thing for food?
and having brought them forth, said, Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?'
but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,
And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace [be] to thee. [Our] friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.
And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Why then gavest thou not my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with interest?
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel.
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest:
I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;
and he writeth in the letter, saying, Place ye Uriah over-against the front of the severest battle, and ye have turned back from after him, and he hath been smitten, and hath died.'
But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
And Jesus answering, said to them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands:
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and fifth of the month, hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reign, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and bringeth him out from the house of restraint,
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,
Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness: from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The Bible offers a profound and multifaceted understanding of forgiveness, emphasizing both God's boundless grace and our responsibility to extend that same grace to others. From acknowledging our need for divine pardon in verses like Psalm 103:12 to embracing reconciliation as demonstrated in Colossians 3:13, scripture calls us to a life characterized by compassion and release. These verses highlight that forgiveness is not merely an act of excusing wrongdoing, but a transformative process that frees us from bitterness and allows healing to begin. Reflect on these passages, considering how they challenge you to examine your own heart and extend forgiveness to those who have wronged you. By embracing the spirit of forgiveness, as exemplified by Christ himself, we unlock the potential for deeper relationships, inner peace, and a closer walk with God.