I firmly intend, with your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against you whom I should love above all things. My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin. O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.There are a variety of different Acts of Contrition suggested in the Rite of Penance. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.” The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”īlessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.įor if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 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?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.Īs it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”Īnd 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. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. “Judge not, and you will not be judged condemn not, and you will not be condemned forgive, and you will be forgiven give, and it will be given to you. Selahīe merciful, even as your Father is merciful. I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Be sure and visit our "Diving Deeper" section for practical steps you can take on your road to forgiving others. We have curated 31 Scriptures which tell us about forgiveness from God and forgiving others. If you are struggling to forgive someone, I encourage to learn more about what God's Word teaches us about forgiveness.
Anger and resentment was replaced with joy and hope, and my view shifted from the destruction in my past to the new hope in my future. By offering forgiveness and giving the offense to God, I received healing and peace from God.
It did not change the consequences of their actions. Even the person who actions so terribly affected my family.įorgiving this person did not change or excuse their actions. And his forgiveness is available to each and every one of us. In truth, we have all sinned against God. I too had sinned against God without offering an apology and refusing to acknowledge that I had done anything wrong. The key for me, ultimately, was in understanding the depth of my forgiveness received from God. The person didn't offer an apology, in fact they didn't think they did anything wrong even though the consequences of their actions were catastrophic. I could not excuse or justify the offense. In my personal experience, I didn't truly understand the meaning of forgiveness until God told me I had to forgive the unforgivable.
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