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.
Expectation
55-1001 §66
...t. I'll work till He comes. The Lord bless you while we pray. Our Heavenly Father, in the name of Thy beloved Child, the Lord Jesus! When I think of Your great sovereignty, how You have led the people through the ages. Your Holy Spirit has never left the earth, and won't until He takes the church to go to meet Jesus in the air and then forever be with Him. God, there's many tonight that's outside of Christ, who doesn't know any forgiveness of sins; maybe they belong to church, but never been borned again, never kno...
Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us
53-0907A §95
When He was on earth He said He was God. He looked like God. He talked like God. He preached like God. Hallelujah! He healed like God. He rose like God. He ascended like God. Hallelujah! And He was God. Hallelujah! He was God in the flesh. God was in His Son manifesting Himself to His people. Oh, how many times we could... How much we could go to that and see what it was. See? But I believe you understand what I mean. See? It's God unfolding Himself. He came out of nature, coming down into the flesh, in His Son. Go...
Speak to this mountain
59-1123 §32
And then when I was turn... I said, "Don't..." And something said to me, "Say what you will, and it'll be done." I stood there. Mr. Mercier, the tape boy, and all of them was standing, Brother Fred, and many of them standing present; the perspiration was just running from me. Something said, "Say, 'Blindness,' it'll be blind. Say, 'Death,' and they'll pack them out. Say what you will." I couldn't speak. I couldn't move. And it just left. I thought, "God, what must I do?" And I turned, and he stood there, and his fa...
Law or Grace
54-1006 §52
I made many mistakes, still make them, will always make them. But when I make them, the Holy Spirit tells me that's wrong. Then I repent right there, "Lord, forgive me. Didn't mean to do it. You help me now." And I walk right on, the same thing. 'Cause, just no sooner than that goes from my lips, "If we confess our sins, He is just to forgive them." Is that right? Hallelujah! The devil say, "You know what? I'll tell you, you was supposed to go do a certain thing. You didn't do it. Aha! You sinned, didn't you?" I sa...
Washing Jesus' feet
57-0310A §18
I think that's a whole lot like we couriers today, we preachers. We are so carried away with our denominations, with our little groups, until many times we fail to recognize when we're in the presence of God. Oh, I wish I could get to Him like that. I wish I could have come to Him and talked to Him. Before I ever would have presented some earthly need, I'd've fell on my face and said, "Jesus, be merciful to me." Little, maybe, did that courier recognize that one day that's going to be his Judge. We do the same thin...