Quotes about Forgiveness
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:6
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:9
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:11
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
— Amos 7:2
“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
— Jonah 1:12
So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
— Jonah 1:14
Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
— Jonah 3:9
When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
— Jonah 3:10
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
— Jonah 4:11
All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
— Micah 1:5
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
— Micah 3:4
I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
— Micah 5:13