Quotes About Forgiveness

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”

Then Joseph fell upon his fatherís face, wept over him, and kissed him.

When Josephís brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,

ëThis is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.í So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.

If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

If you encounter your enemyís stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Why should the Egyptians declare, ëHe brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earthí? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”