15 Psalms About Forgiveness

Forgiveness allows you to let go and move on, and that’s a good thing. It’s not an easy thing, though. And many times, we must forgive, and then forgive again, and again, every time the offense comes to mind.

Forgiveness offers freedom. It clears the way for us to be who God has created us to be—not held back by our mistakes and not slowed by the wrongs done to us.

Read the following verses and see the depth of God’s love and forgiveness for you.

Psalms 103:12

“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”

Psalms 32:1

“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.”

Psalms 25:11

“For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.”

Psalms 51:9 – 51:11

“Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.”

Psalms 130:3 – 130:4

“If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.”

Psalms 86:5

“For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.”

Psalms 103:2 – 103:4

“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;”

Psalms 25:18

“Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.”

Psalms 32:5

“I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.”

Psalms 85:2

“Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.”

Popular Bible Verses about Forgiveness

1 John 1:9

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

Ephesians 4:32

“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

2 Chronicles 7:14

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Jeremiah 31:34

“And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Numbers 14:18

“The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.”

Colossians 3:13

“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.”

Matthew 6:14

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:”

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