Quotes About Forgiveness

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”

For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”

Therefore Jacobís guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.