Pardon
57 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
45 sections
- All Saints Enjoy
- Blessedness of
- David
- Encouragement to Pray For
- Exhibits The: Compassion of God
- Exhibits The: Faithfulness of God
- Exhibits The: Forbearance of God
- Exhibits The: Goodness of God
- Exhibits The: Grace of God
- Exhibits The: Justice of God
- Exhibits The: Loving-Kindness of God
- Exhibits The: Mercy of God
- Expressed by Blotting out Sin
- Expressed by Blotting out Transgression
- Expressed by Casting Sins Into the Sea
- Expressed by Covering Sin
- Expressed by Forgiving Transgression
- Expressed by not Imputing Sin
- Expressed by not Mentioning Transgression
- Expressed by Remembering Sins No More
- Expressed by Removing Transgression
- Hezekiah
- Illustrated
- Israelites
- Legal Sacrifices, Ineffectual For
- Manasseh
- Ministers are Appointed to Proclaim
- None Without Shedding of Blood
- Outward Purifications, Ineffectual For
- Pray for for Others
- Pray for for Yourselves
- Promised
- should be Preached in the Name of Christ
- should Lead to Fearing God
- should Lead to Loving God
- should Lead to Praising God
- should Lead to Returning to God
- The Blood of Christ, Alone, is Efficacious For
- The Paralytic
- The Penitent
- Withheld From: Apostates
- Withheld From: Blasphemers Against the Holy Spirit
- Withheld From: The Impenitent
- Withheld From: The Unbelieving
- Withheld From: The Unforgiving
All Saints Enjoy
- Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- 1 John 2:12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
Blessedness of
- Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- Romans 4:7 “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
David
- 2 Samuel 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
Encouragement to Pray For
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 and 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, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Exhibits The: Compassion of God
- Micah 7:18–19 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance — who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? …
Exhibits The: Faithfulness of God
- 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.
Exhibits The: Forbearance of God
- Romans 3:25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
Exhibits The: Goodness of God
- 2 Chronicles 30:18 A large number of the people— many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun— had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who …
- Psalm 86:5 For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
Exhibits The: Grace of God
- Romans 5:15–16 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! …
Exhibits The: Justice of God
- 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.
Exhibits The: Loving-Kindness of God
- Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Exhibits The: Mercy of God
- Exodus 34:7 maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren …
- Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Expressed by Blotting out Sin
- Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Expressed by Blotting out Transgression
- Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Expressed by Casting Sins Into the Sea
- Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Expressed by Covering Sin
- Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Expressed by Forgiving Transgression
- Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Expressed by not Imputing Sin
- Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”
Expressed by not Mentioning Transgression
- Ezekiel 18:22 None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.
Expressed by Remembering Sins No More
- Hebrews 10:17 Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
Expressed by Removing Transgression
- Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Hezekiah
- Isaiah 38:17 Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Illustrated
- Luke 7:42 When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”
- Luke 15:20–24 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. …
Israelites
- Numbers 14:20 “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
Legal Sacrifices, Ineffectual For
- Hebrews 10:4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Manasseh
- 2 Chronicles 33:13 And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
Ministers are Appointed to Proclaim
- Isaiah 40:1–2 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God. …
- 2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
None Without Shedding of Blood
- Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
- Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Outward Purifications, Ineffectual For
- Job 9:30–31 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, …
- Jeremiah 2:22 Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
Pray for for Others
- James 5:15 And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
- 1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
Pray for for Yourselves
- Psalm 25:11 For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
- Psalm 25:18 Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
- Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”
Promised
- Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Jeremiah 31:34 No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember …
- Hebrews 8:12 For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Jeremiah 50:20 In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
should be Preached in the Name of Christ
- Luke 24:47 and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
should Lead to Fearing God
- Psalm 130:4 But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
should Lead to Loving God
- Luke 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
should Lead to Praising God
- Psalm 103:2–3 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds — …
should Lead to Returning to God
- Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
The Blood of Christ, Alone, is Efficacious For
- Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
The Paralytic
- Matthew 9:2 Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
The Penitent
- Luke 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
Withheld From: Apostates
- Hebrews 10:26–27 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, …
- 1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
Withheld From: Blasphemers Against the Holy Spirit
- Matthew 12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
- Mark 3:28–29 Truly I tell you, the sons of men will be forgiven all sins and blasphemies, as many as they utter. …
Withheld From: The Impenitent
- Luke 13:2–5 To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way? …
Withheld From: The Unbelieving
Withheld From: The Unforgiving
- Mark 11:26
- Luke 6:37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.