100 Bible Verses About Seeking Forgiveness

And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;

And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.

I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?

But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.