And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 1,161 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Matthew 6:15 ESV / 1,141 helpful votes
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 1,052 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 776 helpful votes
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 632 helpful votes
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
James 5:16 ESV / 549 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 498 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Luke 6:37 ESV / 441 helpful votes
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 388 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Psalm 103:10-14 ESV / 343 helpful votes
He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 318 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 287 helpful votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 210 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 John 1:9-10 ESV / 198 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV / 193 helpful votes
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Luke 7:44-50 ESV / 184 helpful votes
Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” ...
Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 181 helpful votes
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
John 13:34 ESV / 176 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 155 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Psalm 32:5 ESV / 153 helpful votes
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Matthew 6:12 ESV / 150 helpful votes
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 149 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 141 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 6:14 ESV / 128 helpful votes
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Romans 6:23 ESV / 125 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 120 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
John 3:16 ESV / 118 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 2:1 ESV / 105 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Matthew 26:28 ESV / 102 helpful votes
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Acts 10:43 ESV / 99 helpful votes
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
1 Kings 8:46-48 ESV / 91 helpful votes
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 85 helpful votes
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Romans 12:20 ESV / 83 helpful votes
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 8:1 ESV / 83 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
James 2:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Psalm 51:2-5 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
2 Corinthians 2:5-11 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. ...
Jeremiah 31:34 ESV / 75 helpful votes
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 73 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 69 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Psalm 38:3-4 ESV / 69 helpful votes
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 66 helpful votes
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
1 Kings 8:46-50 ESV / 63 helpful votes
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
Micah 7:18-20 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 61 helpful votes
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Acts 22:16 ESV / 60 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 58 helpful votes
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Psalm 130:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Romans 12:17 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Matthew 18:33-35 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Psalm 40:12 ESV / 52 helpful votes
For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Proverbs 15:30 ESV / 47 helpful votes
The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 46 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Romans 6:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 3:21-26 ESV / 44 helpful votes
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ...
Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Isaiah 45:22 ESV / 43 helpful votes
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Genesis 50:15-21 ESV / 42 helpful votes
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died, ‘Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? ...
Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...
Hosea 11:9 ESV / 37 helpful votes
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Psalm 103:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Matthew 18:23-35 ESV / 35 helpful votes
“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ...
Psalm 38:5-6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness, I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
John 8:1-11 ESV / 33 helpful votes
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ...
Daniel 9:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him
Ezekiel 18:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
Deuteronomy 24:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Hosea 3:4-5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 29 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
Job 42:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
2 Corinthians 5:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
Psalm 25:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
John 15:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Psalm 51:1-10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...
Ephesians 3:1-21 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. ...
Ephesians 2:4-9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ...
Acts 9:11-16 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.” But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.” But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. ...
Hosea 13:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Revelation 5:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
Revelation 1:1-21:27 ESV / 23 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
Galatians 3:27 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Zechariah 1:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 59:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 44:22-23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.
Isaiah 38:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Psalm 109:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
Matthew 5:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
2 Samuel 19:26-28 ESV / 21 helpful votes
He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame. He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you. For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”
Luke 12:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Psalm 109:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Matthew 5:7-9 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons
