He who covers an offense promotes love;
but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
Proverbs 17:9
friendship
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
compassion | goodness | reconciliation
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14
sin | grace | mercy
Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Colossians 3:13
peace | neighbor | reconciliation
If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
humility | healing | conversion
Don’t judge,
and you won’t be judged.
Don’t condemn,
and you won’t be condemned.
Set free,
and you will be set free.
Luke 6:37
judgment
Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.”
Matthew 18:21-22
neighbor | sin | mercy
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper,
but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13
sin | confession | mercy
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalm 86:5
reliability | love
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
Mark 11:25
prayer | Father | sin
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
because he delights in loving kindness.
Micah 7:18
sin | mercy
Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins; and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 13:38-39
law | Jesus | freedom
Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9b
grace | repentance | conversion
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
1 John 2:2
sin | Savior | world
I acknowledged my sin to you.
I didn’t hide my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh,
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalm 32:5
confession | sin | acknowledging
Forgive us our debts,
as we also forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:12
debt | prayer
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Ephesians 1:7
sin | Savior | blood
Tear your heart and not your garments,
and turn to Yahweh, your God;
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
and relents from sending calamity.
Joel 2:13
heart | grace | love
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
Acts 3:19
conversion | sin | repentance
If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.
Luke 17:3b-4
sin | repentance | speaking
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 2:38
Spirit | baptism | conversion
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Isaiah 55:7
righteousness | conversion | life
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14-15
sickness | prayer | faith
But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 6:15
sin | Father
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent.
Acts 17:30
repentance | conversion
‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.’
Jeremiah 3:12b
mercy | anger | grace
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.
Hebrews 8:12
sin | grace
Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah 9:31
grace | mercy | nearness
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Psalm 32:1
sin | blessing
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.”
Matthew 9:12
healing | health
Who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
Colossians 1:13-14
salvation | devil | Jesus
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:
“Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Isaiah 1:18
sin | purification | blood
Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in that which is to come.
Matthew 12:32
Holy Spirit | Jesus | eternal life
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
Matthew 12:31
sin | Spirit | Holy Spirit
He will again have compassion on us.
He will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:19
compassion | sin
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
Luke 23:34
crucifixion | easter
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
and accept that which is good;
so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.”
Hosea 14:2
conversion
He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.”
Matthew 26:27-28
wine | blood | covenant
According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Hebrews 9:22
law | blood | sin
All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.
Acts 10:43
prophecy | faith | Jesus
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
Jonah 3:10
repentance | grace | evil