Eye Opening Bible Verses That Reveal What The Scriptures Say On The Subject Of Forgiveness

I recently did a search on my favorite Bible study site, www.blueletterbible.com and found some interesting things concerning the subject of forgiveness. For starters, the word "forgiveness" occurs only 7 times in the entire Bible. The word "forgiven" is found just 42 times. You would think that there would be more occurrences of both these words but the Bible is a very efficient book and when these words are used there is a great deal of theology packed into each appearance in the Scriptures.
There are three of these verses that I want to draw special attention to as to their profound meaning and implications. The first is Ephesians 1:7...
 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
This verse is part of a running introduction that tells us what a wonderful position we are in as believers. It is because of God's grace (unmerited favor) that we have been redeemed (bought back) and experienced forgiveness of sins, all because of His shed blood. Real forgiveness is not something anyone deserves or earns and comes at a very dear cost to our Savior, His life blood. The next verse is very similar and is found in Colossians 1:14...
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
This verse tells us nothing new but does emphasize what we learned in Ephesians 1:7. However, the previous verse is connected and gives us another benefit of God's forgiveness notice what verse 13 says...
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Not only have we been forgiven, redeemed and graced but we have also been delivered from darkness and translated (present tense) into the kingdom of God's dear Son. Our forgiveness and place in God's kingdom is as certain as if we were already present with Him in heaven. 
The final verse that I want to call your attention to is found in Colossians 2:13...
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
When discussing Bible verses on forgiveness this may be my favorite verse. This verse tells us just how many sins God has forgiven and the answer is "all". There are a lot of folks today that want to tell us that Jesus death on the cross paid for all of our past sins and now it is up to us to clean up our act and atone for all our future sins. In other words, Jesus death on the cross is not sufficient for sins that we commit after we believe. What rubbish! When Jesus died on the cross 2000 years ago all of my sins were yet future. What arrogance to assume that we could have any part in our redemption. The only part I played in the whole drama was the "sinning" and God does all the "forgiving" through the blood of His dear Son. If God has not forgiven all of my sins (past, present, future) then I am a doomed man. We are all doomed.
The only response that we can render to God to acquire this great forgiveness and all of it's benefits is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. I urge you to trust Christ as your Savior today.