Bible Verses about Forgiveness

  We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about forgiveness or related topics, subjects, themes and categories.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9 ESV

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Mark 11:25 ESV

Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?"

Matthew 18:21 ESV

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Matthew 6:14 ESV

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Ephesians 1:7 ESV 

Bible Verses About Fools

Bible verses about fools are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about fools or related topics, subjects, themes and categories.

“The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.”

Proverbs 10:14 ESV

“A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.”

Proverbs 29:11 ESV

“It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.”

Proverbs 20:3 ESV

“The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.”

Psalms 14:1 ESV

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Proverbs 1:7 ESV

Bible Verses About Fear

Bible verses about fear are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about fear or related topics, subjects, themes and categories.

“For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you."

Isaiah 41:13 ESV

“for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV

“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Matthew 10:28 ESV

“So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?"

Hebrews 13:6 ESV

Bible Verses About Fasting

Bible verses about fasting are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about fasting 

And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 13:3 

And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Acts 14:23 

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Luke 18:12 

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew 4:2 

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 69:10 

Bible Verses About Family

Bible verses about family are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about family. 

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”

Exodus 20:12 ESV

“A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.”

Proverbs 15:20 ESV

“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,”

Proverbs 1:8 ESV

“But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,”

Psalms 103:17 ESV

“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”

Colossians 3:20 ESV

Bible Verses About Faith

Bible verses about faith are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about faith.

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?”

James 2:14 ESV

“Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.”

1 Peter 1:21 ESV

“In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;”

Ephesians 6:16 ESV

“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.”

James 1:6 ESV

Bible Verses About Enemies

Bible verses about enemies are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about enemies.

“Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.”

Psalm 138:7 ESV

 “When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”

Proverbs 16:7 ESV

“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”

Matthew 5:44 ESV

“When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 20:1 ESV

“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.”

Exodus 23:22 ESV

Bible Verses About Doubt

Bible verses about doubt are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about doubt.

“Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.”

Mark 11:23 ESV

“Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 14:31 ESV

“And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.”

Matthew 21:21 ESV

“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.”

James 1:6 ESV

Bible Verses About Dicipline

Bible verses about discipline are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about discipline or related topics, subjects, themes and categories.

"Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.”

Revelation 3:19 ESV

"For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.”

Hebrews 12:10 ESV

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Proverbs 1:7 

“Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.”

Proverbs 15:32 ESV

“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.”

Job 5:17 ESV

We also have Topic Booklets at our church from Lutheran Hour Ministries concerning dicipline and self control. 

Bible Verses About Depression

Bible verses about depression are listed below. We encourage you to continue reading the holy bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about depression or related topics, subjects, themes and categories.

“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;”

2 Corinthians 4:8 ESV

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33 

“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.”

Hosea 6:1 ESV

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

Psalm 147:3 ESV

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Philippians 4:8 ESV

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We also have Topic Booklets at our church from Lutheran Hour Ministries concerning depression.  

The Administration of Ashes

The association of ashes with repentance goes back over 3000 years and is mentioned frequently in Scripture (for example: Joshua 7:6, 1 Samuel 4:12, 2 Samuel 1:2 & 15:32, Job 2:12 & 16:15, Jeremiah 25:34, Lamentations 2:10, Ezekiel 27:30, Jonah 3:6, etc.).

The Christian practice of administering ashes as a symbol of repentance is first mentioned in 110 AD, making it one of the oldest-known customs in all of Christianity.  The Church Season of Lent is a season of repentance and so understandably, the association with ashes became especially strong during Lent.  By the 12th Century, the first day of Lent had evolved into the most solemn day of repentance of the year and always included the imposition of ashes - made in the Sign of the Cross to remind us that those sins are forgiven in the Cross of Christ and to remind us of our Baptism where we also received forgiveness and the Sign of the Cross was made on our forehead.  This custom of administering ashes on this day was so foundational that by the late middle ages, the day became universally known as "Ash Wednesday."

The ancient custom has TWO very important meanings: We are sinful, unclean, and worthy of death ("to ashes you shall return" Genesis 3:19), but we have forgiveness of sins in the precious Cross of Christ (the imposition is made in that Sign), also reminding us of forgiveness that is ours in Christ).  It is thus a symbol of both repentance and faith, of contrition and absolution, of the death we deserve and the life we received and continue to receive by grace.


 

Bible Verses About Illness

Bible verses about illness are listed below. 

We encourage you to continue reading the Holy Bible for additional bible verses and bible texts about illness or related topics, subjects, themes and categories.

1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.

3He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of righteousness

for his name’s sake.

4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

forever.

Psalm 23

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord

in the land of the living!

Psalm 27:13

26 My flesh and my heart may fail,

but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 73:26

1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

2I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust.”

3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler

and from the deadly pestilence.

4He will cover you with his pinions,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

5 You will not fear the terror of the night,

nor the arrow that flies by day,

6nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

7A thousand may fall at your side,

ten thousand at your right hand,

but it will not come near you.

8You will only look with your eyes

and see the recompense of the wicked.

9Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—

the Most High, who is my refuge—

10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you,

no plague come near your tent.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you

to guard you in all your ways.

12On their hands they will bear you up,

lest you strike your foot against a stone.

13You will tread on the lion and the adder;

the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.

14“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;

I will protect him, because he knows my name.

15When he calls to me, I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will rescue him and honor him.

16With long life I will satisfy him

and show him my salvation.”

Psalm 91

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings like eagles;

they shall run and not be weary;

they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31
17This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”
Matt 8:17

1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4And you know the way to where I am going.” 5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
John 14:1-6

In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you,whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
John 16:23

21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Phil 1:21

7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:7

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:15