Bible on Forgiveness

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.

And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

But wisdom is justified of all her children.

After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.