14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Forgiveness
• Repentance

• The Prodigal Son

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 11:31 — For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
• 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1Kgs 8:47 — Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned,
• 1Kgs 20:30 — But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
• 1Sam 7:6 — And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Isra
• 2Chr 33:12 — And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• 2Chr 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold,
• 2Kgs 7:3 — And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
• Hos 2:6 — Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
• Hos 14:1 — O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
• Isa 63:16 — Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
• Isa 65:24 — And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
• Jer 3:13 — Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the L
• Jer 3:19 — But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from m
• Jer 14:20 — We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
• Jer 31:6 — For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
• Jer 31:20 — Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the
• Jer 50:4 — In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
• Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• Job 36:8 — And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
• Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
• Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
• Jonah 3:9 — Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
• Jonah 3:9 — Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
• Lam 3:40 — Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
• Lam 3:42 — We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
• Lev 26:40 — If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
• Luke 15:17 — And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
• Luke 15:21 — And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
• Luke 15:21 — And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
• Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
• Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
• Luke 20:4 — The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
• Matt 3:6 — And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Matt 6:9 — After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
• Matt 6:9 — After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
• Matt 6:14 — For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
• Matt 7:11 — If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
• Matt 15:27 — And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.