Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Synonyms for Forgiveness: absolution, pardon, amnesty, exoneration, mercy, pardoning, acquittal, condonation, remission, clearing, clemency, and condoning

Psalms 25:18 (ESV)
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

Psalms 32:1 (ESV)
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalms 130:3-4 (ESV)
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4. But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Jeremiah 33:8 (ESV)
I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

Daniel 9:9 (ESV)
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.

Jeremiah 33:8 (ESV)
I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

Matthew 6:14-15 (ESV)
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15. but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 9:2 (ESV)
And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”

Matthew 26:28 (ESV)
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 1:4 (ESV)
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 3:28-29 (ESV)
“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, 29. but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” —

Luke 1:76-78 (ESV)
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, 77. to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, 78. because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high

Luke 24:46-47 (ESV)
and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47. and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

John 20:21-23 (ESV)
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” 22. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

Acts 2:38 (ESV)
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 5:31 (ESV)
God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

Acts 10:43 (ESV)
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Acts 13:38-39 (ESV)
Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39. and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 (ESV)
Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, 11. so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Colossians 1:13-14 (ESV)
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14. in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:13-1 (ESV)
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14. in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 2:13-14 (ESV)
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14. by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 3:12-13 (ESV)
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13. bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

1 John 1:9 (ESV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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