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Bible Verses About Asking God for Forgiveness

Confession and repentance — the posture of coming to God honestly with sin, and His response.

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Coming to God with an honest heart of repentance is the doorway to restoration and true peace. He is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, meeting our confession with His overwhelming grace. There is no sin too deep for His forgiving love to reach and redeem.

Key Passages

"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."

"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."

"And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me."

"Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin."

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"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered."

"Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile."

"When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long."

"For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."

"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions."

"For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me."

"Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."

"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."

"Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom."

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."

"Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."

"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."

"Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit."

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

"¶ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:"

"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."

"Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."

"I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"

"And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants."

"And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him."

"And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son."

"¶ Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;"

"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."

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