Forgiving yourself is not a phrase Scripture uses directly, but its teaching on confession and receiving grace applies directly to it. This page gathers verified verses relevant to forgiving yourself.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalms 103:3
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psalms 19:12
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalms 25:18
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalms 32:1
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.
Psalms 32:5
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms 51:2
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
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Mark 11:26
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Romans 4:7
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:9
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:10
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
Luke 11:4
Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Luke 7:22
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Luke 7:47
And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
Luke 7:48
And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
Luke 7:49
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Luke 17:3
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Luke 17:4
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
Luke 17:14
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
Luke 17:17
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
1 John 1:9’s promise that confessed sin is fully forgiven and cleansed applies directly to continuing to punish yourself after genuine confession.
This connects to a pattern found throughout Bible Verses About Forgiving Yourself.
If this speaks to your current situation, you may also want to read Bible Verses For Powerful Prayer or Bible Verses For Having Faith, both of which touch on related ground.
Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
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Praying through Bible Verses About Forgiving Yourself slowly, pausing after each verse, is a different practice than simply reading them, and many readers find it changes how the words are received.
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Every verse in Bible Verses About Forgiving Yourself is drawn from the King James Version specifically, a translation completed in 1611 that remains one of the most widely quoted English versions of Scripture. Its language is more formal than modern translations, which some readers find adds a certain weight to familiar passages.
The twenty verses in Bible Verses About Forgiving Yourself were selected specifically because they speak directly to this subject, rather than only mentioning it in passing. Some are well known; others are easy to overlook on a first read through Scripture. Both kinds are included here because familiarity is not the same as relevance — a lesser-known verse can sometimes say exactly what a well-known one does not.
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Scripture’s teaching on confession and grace applies directly to forgiving yourself, even without using that exact phrase.