How Many Times Will God Forgive Me?
1) Direct Answer
God will forgive you every time you truly repent. There is no fixed number. As long as you come honestly, confessing and turning from sin, the door of mercy is open. The only sin the Bible marks as unforgivable is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit—but a heart seeking forgiveness hasn’t done that.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus told Peter, “not seven times, but seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:21-22). If He commands us to forgive that freely, how much more does God forgive His children.
- “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us…and to cleanse us” (1 John 1:9).
- “You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive” (Psalm 86:5). He casts sins “into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19) and removes them “as far as the east is from the west” (Psalm 103:12).
- The prodigal son shows the Father running to receive the repentant (Luke 15).
- Jesus said all sins can be forgiven except blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Mark 3:28-29).
- This mercy is not a license to sin: “Shall we continue in sin…? God forbid” (Romans 6:1-2). “He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).
- And if you stumble, “we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). He “is able to save…to the uttermost” (Hebrews 7:25).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice: Jesus removed the number from forgiveness. That shows God’s heart. He’s not counting; He’s cleansing.
- Forgiveness is not about how many times you fell, but whether you come in godly sorrow, confess, and turn. Real repentance brings real mercy.
- If you’re troubled and drawn to ask this, that’s the Spirit dealing with you. The very fact you care means the way back is open.
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
Come now. Confess it, forsake it, and believe His Word. Don’t count your failures—count on His blood. Walk in the light, and He will keep you.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Thou Son of David, have mercy on me
61-0215 §72
...that that Spirit that was near them, saying, "Child, you're wrong. You should receive me tonight. I'll stop in my great busy schedule and turn around and say, 'Thy sins are forgiven thee. Go and sin no more.' " As you have said so many times, You have said it to them tonight, because they've made their decision. Now, Father God, I pray that You won't let one of them... I don't believe that they raised their hands just for the saying of raising their hands. I believe they were sincere; they really meant it. And now...
The arrow of God's deliverance shot from a bow
56-0801 §58
...great strategic time is at hand. The time is at hand when... I have witnessed to You with all my heart. I've tried with all my heart to correct, and to exalt the Kingdom of God, and to bring down judgments upon the people. And they have repented, Lord. Many have raised their hands with honest confessions that they're ashamed of their sinful life. God, I don't believe one raised their hands that You didn't forgive. And now, to show them that You're here, not that You have too any more, but may You appear in here in...
Has the Lord spoken only to Moses?
53-1130 §44
Now, of these type of testimonies, God who is my Judge would know this, and I say it and if I'm exaggerating, God forgive me. I believe that I could stand here, if it was possible enough, and for the next five hundred hours give testimony of things that I know that our Lord has did, and it wouldn't cover it, of things above the thousands that volumes of books wouldn't put it in detail, of what our Lord Jesus has did, that I've seen Him do myself. Friends, it's just been hundreds times hundreds times hundreds of eve...
The unwelcomed Christ
55-1002 §62
Our Heavenly Father, as we think of our Lord Jesus coming and being not entertained in the house that He was invited. O God, may the people here in Chicago ... may the people here now, along with myself just lose ourself in Thee and entertain Thee, Lord, with all of our heart, with all of our strength, with all of our mind. May we worship Thee in the Spirit and in truth, and the beauty of holiness. May we live every day, not noticing what the world has got to say about it, but what You say about it, Lord. Grant it....
Zacchaeus, the businessman
63-0121 §68
Almighty God, the great and terrible Jehovah---who roared off of Mount Sinai even till the people said, "Let Moses speak and not God, or we die."---speak tonight, our heavenly Father, in mercy and forgiveness into the heart of the people that doesn't know you. And let them know that this is the time that... They may be hiding behind their business. There may be many businessmen here, Father, that doesn't really know You. Maybe they do belong to church, and we say nothing evil against that. But they've never been bo...