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.

John 3:16NIV

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.

2 Peter 3:16KJV

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalms 105:45KJV

Now I tell you before it cometh, that when it hath come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he].

John 13:19WEB

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.

Isaiah 34:14WEB

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

Galatians 4:21YLT

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labor to him?

Job 39:11WEB

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.

2 Samuel 18:8YLT

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?'

Mark 2:26YLT

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 .

Isaiah 44:14YLT

And he said to them, This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

Mark 9:29YLT

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;

Ezekiel 20:46WEB

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9KJV

Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.

Proverbs 19:8YLT

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.

1 Samuel 3:13WEB

But though [I am] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.

2 Corinthians 11:6WEB

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Psalms 64:1KJV

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.

Leviticus 23:36YLT

Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 20:47WEB

But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

Psalms 52:8WEB

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;

Ruth 1:8YLT

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalms 119:61WEB

Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

Philippians 1:4KJV

He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

Proverbs 19:8WEB

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Acts 2:42KJV

But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 17:4WEB

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;

Ephesians 3:8WEB

The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor man that hath understanding searcheth him out.

Proverbs 28:11WEB

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.

Luke 10:19WEB

A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold--good grace.

Proverbs 22:1YLT

Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:10WEB

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.

Acts 1:8WEB

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.

Psalms 56:11WEB

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:10KJV

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:2KJV

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Proverbs 29:17KJV

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.'

Luke 22:37YLT

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

Psalms 103:9KJV

And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea-shore.

1 Kings 4:29WEB

[But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Isaiah 45:17WEB

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Psalms 71:7KJV

Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

Proverbs 1:7YLT

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,

Ecclesiastes 12:3KJV

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? tempting him.

Mark 10:2WEB

in regard to which ye are able, reading it , to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

Ephesians 3:4YLT

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.

1 Timothy 5:16KJV

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?'

1 Kings 3:9YLT

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:

Deuteronomy 28:15WEB

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:

1 Kings 8:48KJV

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.

Ezekiel 44:30YLT

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,

Ezekiel 7:20YLT

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?

Exodus 32:11YLT

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;

Ezekiel 33:14KJV

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.

Mark 16:14KJV

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.

Isaiah 49:7KJV

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

Proverbs 21:30YLT

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.

1 Kings 2:3WEB

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.

Ruth 1:6YLT

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.

Daniel 6:15WEB

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Psalms 109:7KJV

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.

Isaiah 60:10KJV

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.

Leviticus 25:9KJV

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.

Leviticus 4:20WEB

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.

Psalms 143:8KJV

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Proverbs 6:32KJV

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.'

Esther 9:13YLT

But, in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.

Mark 7:7WEB

And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have ye here any thing for food?

Luke 24:41WEB

and having brought them forth, said, Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?'

Acts 16:30YLT

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,

John 6:64YLT

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.

Isaiah 24:5YLT

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.

3 John 1:14WEB

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Hebrews 3:18WEB

Why then gavest thou not my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with interest?

Luke 19:23WEB

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.

Luke 23:35KJV

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Psalms 16:1KJV

And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel.

Numbers 10:36WEB

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Psalms 84:8KJV

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.

1 Peter 5:10KJV

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Psalms 119:176KJV

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?

Jeremiah 49:19KJV

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,

Ephesians 1:18WEB

This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest:

Leviticus 14:2WEB

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

Galatians 1:6YLT

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.'

2 Samuel 11:15YLT

But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;

Leviticus 26:14WEB

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 44:25KJV

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;

Titus 3:5KJV

For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

2 Corinthians 2:15KJV

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.

Isaiah 49:10WEB

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.

2 Samuel 18:7KJV

And Jesus answering, said to them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

Mark 12:24WEB

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:4WEB

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:

Jeremiah 47:3WEB

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.

Luke 11:24KJV

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,

Jeremiah 52:31YLT

Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

Ephesians 3:4KJV

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,

Jude 1:4YLT

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.

Psalms 110:3WEB

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.

John 1:14KJV

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.