Forgiveness – yikes, hard right? One of the best ways to learn about forgiveness is to look in the instruction manual, the Bible. Here are ten Bible verses about forgiveness.

Bible Verses About Forgiveness

Forgiving Others

Ephesians 4:32 – Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 3:13 – 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.

Mark 11:25 – And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.

Luke 6:37 – Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Matthew 6:14 – For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Forgiveness for Our Sins

Psalm 130:3-4 – If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.

John 8:7 – And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.

1 John 1:9 – But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.

James 5:16 – So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.