Quotes About Forgiveness

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

I have surely heard Ephraimís moaning: ëYou disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ëKnow the LORD,í because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the others.

And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.í

Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.

In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israelís guilt, but there will be none, and for Judahís sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.