Top 30 Bible Verses about Praying for Forgiveness

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.

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

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.

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.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

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.

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

“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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

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.

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

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.

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

If my people who are called by my name 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 heal their land.

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

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.

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.

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.

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.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Forgiveness is a form of charity.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.