Bible Verses About Forgiving Yourself
Breaking free from self-condemnation, receiving grace personally, not holding against yourself what God has released.
Breaking free from self-condemnation requires receiving the grace of God personally for your own failures. When you hold against yourself what God has already released, you deny the power of His mercy. Walk in the identity-in-christ of a new creation, taking hold of the grace to leave the old shame behind once and for all.
Key Passages
"¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:"
"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 hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities."
"For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him."
"As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us."
"If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?"
"But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared."
"¶ Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old."
"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."
"I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee."
"¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
"They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
"Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."
"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,"
"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."
"And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."
"And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him."
"For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."
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