Bible Verses About Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the hardest math in the Christian life — and the most freeing. These scriptures speak both directions: the mercy God extends to you, and the mercy that slowly loosens your grip on old wounds.
Ephesians 4:32 holds both halves of forgiveness in one line: “Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you,” and Psalm 103:12 measures God’s mercy — “as far as the east is from the west.”
Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!
Scripture quoted from the Berean Standard Bible. Tap any reference to compare all four translations.