Forgiving Sins

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

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

“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. — read the full passage →

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. — read the full passage →

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. — read the full passage →

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.