Theme
Forgiveness
What does God actually do with your sin?
Verse 1
“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:”
Matthew 6:14 · KJV
Connects forgiveness received from God to the forgiveness we extend to others.
Verse 2
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:32 · KJV
Calls believers to forgive one another as God in Christ has forgiven them.
Verse 3
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.”
Colossians 3:13 · KJV
Frames forgiveness as a daily practice rooted in the Lord's forgiveness of us.
Verse 4
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
I John 1:9 · KJV
Promises that confessing sin leads to God's faithful and complete forgiveness.
Verse 5
“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Mark 11:25 · KJV
Links prayer and forgiveness, urging us to forgive before we approach God.
Verse 6
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.”
Proverbs 17:9 · KJV
Shows that choosing to overlook an offence is the path to lasting relationship.
Verse 7
“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.”
Isaiah 43:25 · KJV
Declares that God wipes out our sins for His own sake, not ours.
Verse 8
“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”
Psalms 103:12 · KJV
Uses the image of east from west to illustrate how far God removes our sin.
Verse 9
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.”
Psalms 51:1 · KJV
David's cry for mercy captures the raw honesty of coming to God for forgiveness.
Verse 10
“He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”
Micah 7:19 · KJV
Promises that God will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.