29 Bible Verses about forgiving others

But if you do not forgive others [nurturing your hurt and anger with the result that it interferes with your relationship with God], then your Father will not forgive your trespasses.

Be kind and helpful to one another, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving one another [readily and freely], just as God in Christ also forgave you.

bearing graciously with one another, and willingly forgiving each other if one has a cause for complaint against another; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so should you forgive.

For if you forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him [drop the issue, let it go], so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions and wrongdoings [against Him and others].

And his master’s heart was moved with compassion and he released him and forgave him [canceling] the debt.

[But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.”]

My heavenly Father will also do the same to [every one of] you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

‘And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors [letting go of both the wrong and the resentment].

Even if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him [that is, give up resentment and consider the offense recalled and annulled].”

‘And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us [who has offended or wronged us].
And lead us not into temptation [but rescue us from evil].’”

And Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing His clothes among themselves.

so instead [of further rebuke, now] you should rather [graciously] forgive and comfort and encourage him, to keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

If you forgive anyone anything, I too forgive [that one]; and what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of [and with the approval of] Christ,

Those who were reclining at the table with Him began saying among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

Then Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? Up to seven times?”

Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave [who owed you little by comparison], as I had mercy on you?’

“For I will be merciful and gracious toward their wickedness,
And I will remember their sins no more.”

If you forgive the sins of anyone they are forgiven [because of their faith]; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained [and remain unforgiven because of their unbelief].”

“Do not judge [others self-righteously], and you will not be judged; do not condemn [others when you are guilty and unrepentant], and you will not be condemned [for your hypocrisy]; pardon [others when they truly repent and change], and you will be pardoned [when you truly repent and change].

Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Jesus answered him, “I say to you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven.

Above all, have fervent and unfailing love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins [it overlooks unkindness and unselfishly seeks the best for others].

Now where there is [absolute] forgiveness and complete cancellation of the penalty of these things, there is no longer any offering [to be made to atone] for sin.

let the [latter] one know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save that one’s soul from death and cover a multitude of sins [that is, obtain the pardon of the many sins committed by the one who has been restored].

leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering.

For Your name’s sake, O Lord,
Pardon my wickedness and my guilt, for they are great.