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16 Bible Verses About Apologizing

Christian Pure Team

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Summary

  • Numbers 5:6-7 requires a person who wrongs another to confess the sin, and to repay the loss plus a fifth to the person wronged.
  • In Matthew 5:23-24 a worshipper who remembers that a brother or sister “has something against you” is told to leave the gift at the altar and be reconciled first.
  • Luke 17:3-4 tells the disciples to forgive whoever comes back saying “I repent,” even seven times in one day.
  • Zacchaeus offered fourfold restitution to anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:8), the rate Exodus 22:1 sets for a stolen and slaughtered sheep.
  • The father in Luke 15 runs to his son before the son has spoken, and the son’s apology stops short of asking to be made a hired servant.

The Bible’s passages on apologizing deal with confessing sin to God, repaying a person who has been wronged, and being reconciled. Psalm 32:5 and 1 John 1:9 confess sin to God, and 2 Corinthians 7:10 sets “godly sorrow,” which brings repentance, against “worldly sorrow,” which brings death. Numbers 5:6-8 requires a person who wrongs another to confess the sin and to repay the loss, plus a fifth, to the person wronged, alongside the ram with which atonement is made. Matthew…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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