God's Goodness and Forgiveness

  • Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:34 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
  • Nehemiah 9:17 … But You are a God of forgiveness,Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness; And You did not forsake them.
  • Jonah 4:2   … for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
  • Psalm 25:7 Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your goodness’ sake, O LORD.
  • Psalm 86:5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.
  • Psalm 86:15 But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
  • Psalm 31:19 Oh, how great is Your goodness, Which You have laid up for those who fear You, Which You have prepared for those who trust in You In the presence of the sons of men!
  • Psalm 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
  • Psalm 34:8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
  • Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
  • Psalm 65:11 You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.
  • Psalm 69:16 Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
  • Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
  • Psalm 100:5 For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.
  • Psalm 106:1 Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
  • Psalm 107:1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
  • Psalm 107:8-9 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul, And fills the hungry soul with goodness.
  • Psalm 119:68 You are good and do good; Teach me Your statutes.
  • Psalm 135:3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; Sing praises to His name, for it is pleasant.
  • Psalm 136:1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
  • Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.
  • Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
  • Psalm 103:1-5 Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! 2  Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3  Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4  Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5  Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
  • Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
  • Psalm 103:10-12 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. 12  As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
  • Isaiah 44:22   I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Isaiah 54:9-10 “For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10  For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
  • Ezekiel 18:23 Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD, and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
  • Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
  • Psalm 34:18(TPT) The Lord is close to all whose hearts are crushed by pain, and he is always ready to restore the repentant one.
  • Psalm 51:17 (NLT) The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
  • Psalm 32:10(TPT) So my conclusion is this: Many are the sorrows and frustrations of those who don’t come clean with God. But when you trust in the Lord for forgiveness, his wrap-around love will surround you.
  • Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
  • Jeremiah 31:14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.
  • Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.
  • Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
  • John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
  • Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
  • Acts 13:38-39 Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;  39  and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
  • 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • 1 Peter 5:5-7 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” 6  Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,  7  casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
  • Hebrew 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
  • Hebrews 10:16-17 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds, I will write them,”  17  then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
  • John 6:37 But everyone my Father has given to me, they will come. And all who come to me, I will embrace and will never turn them away.
  • Psalm 139:13-14 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14  I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
  • Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; Before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.
  • Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
  • Psalm 34:4 I sought the LORD, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
  • 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
  • 1 Timothy 2:4 Who (God) desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • 2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
  • 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
  • Psalm 89:34 My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
  • John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
  • Ephesians 1:7(TPT) Since we are now joined to Christ, we have been given the treasures of redemption by his blood—the total cancellation of our sins—all because of the cascading riches of his grace.
  • Colossians 1:13-14 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,  14  in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
  • Colossians 2:11-15(TPT) Through our union with him we have experienced circumcision of heart. All of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away and is now extinct because of what Christ, the Anointed One, has accomplished for us. 12 For we’ve been buried with him into his death. Our “baptism into death” also means we were raised with him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised him from death’s realm.  13  This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins! 14  He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation. 15  Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!
  • Romans 8:1(TPT) So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life-union with Jesus, the Anointed One.
  • Romans 8:33-34(TPT) Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his? God himself is the judge who has issued his final verdict over them — “Not guilty!” 34  Who then is left to condemn us? Certainly not Jesus, the Anointed One! For he gave his life for us, and even more than that, he has conquered death and is now risen, exalted, and enthroned by God at his right hand. So how could he possibly condemn us since he is continually praying for our triumph?
  • Romans 8:38-39(TPT) So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love.  39  There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
  • Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Zechariah 9:12 Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you.
  • Joel 2:25 So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.