In the Bible, forgiveness runs in two directions: God forgives those who repent, and those who have been forgiven learn to forgive. It is not forgetting what happened; it is giving up the right to collect — the way God did with us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The way in is confession. The promise does not depend on the size of the sin, but on the faithfulness of the one who forgives.
Read the chapter →And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
The measure of forgiveness between people is the forgiveness we received in Christ.
Read the chapter →Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Paul assumes there will be real grievances — and even so the way forward is to bear with one another and forgive.
Read the chapter →For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Right after the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus returns to the one request he stopped to explain: forgiveness.
Read the chapter →Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Peter thought seven times was generous; seventy times seven means: stop counting.
Read the chapter →As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
The distance from east to west cannot be measured — that is how far God removes the sin he forgives.
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