Forgiving Yourself

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. Even after receiving God's forgiveness, you may replay past mistakes, punish yourself with shame, or feel unworthy of grace. But refusing to forgive yourself is ultimately disagreeing with God's verdict of 'forgiven.' These passages encourage you to accept the forgiveness Christ purchased, to release self-condemnation, and to walk in the freedom of knowing that what God has cleansed, you need not call unclean.

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Category: Forgiveness & Guilt
Passages: 5 key scriptures

Key Passages

Forgetting What Is Behind

Philippians 3:13-14

God's willingness to remember our sins no more models the self-forgiveness we struggle to extend - if God has released it, we can too.

B¹³rethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

The Blood of Christ Cleanses

1 John 1:7-9

The Blood of Christ Cleanses offers biblical truth for the situation of forgiving yourself. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

B⁷ut if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He Remembers Our Sins No More

Hebrews 8:12

He Remembers Our Sins No More offers biblical truth for the situation of forgiving yourself. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

F¹²or I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

There Is Therefore Now No Condemnation

Romans 8:1

There Is Therefore Now No Condemnation offers biblical truth for the situation of forgiving yourself. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

T¹here is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Create in Me a Clean Heart

Psalms 51:10-12

Create in Me a Clean Heart offers biblical truth for the situation of forgiving yourself. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

C¹⁰reate in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. ¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.