Quotes About Forgiveness

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.

And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighborís hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.

If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

A manís insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.

A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.