Forgiveness Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What did Jesus say when asked how many times to forgive?
- A. Seven times
- B. Seventy times seven ✓
- C. Never
- D. Only if they repent
Answer: Seventy times seven
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Q2.What did Jesus teach in the Lord's Prayer about forgiveness?
- A. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors ✓
- B. Forgive us our sins without condition
- C. Only God can forgive
- D. Do not forgive others
Answer: Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Q3.What did Jesus say about forgiving others before prayer?
- A. Leave thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother ✓
- B. Pray regardless
- C. Only forgive friends
- D. God forgives without condition
Answer: Leave thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Q4.What does Psalm 103:12 say God does with our sins?
- A. He punishes them
- B. He remembers them
- C. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us ✓
- D. He ignores them
Answer: As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Q5.What did David ask God to do in Psalm 51?
- A. Punish him
- B. Blot out his transgressions, wash him, and cleanse him from his sin ✓
- C. Ignore his sin
- D. Reward him
Answer: Blot out his transgressions, wash him, and cleanse him from his sin
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Q6.What did Jesus say from the cross about those who crucified him?
- A. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do ✓
- B. They will be punished
- C. Father, avenge me
- D. They are beyond forgiveness
Answer: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Q7.What does Isaiah 1:18 say the LORD invites us to reason about?
- A. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ✓
- B. The law
- C. Judgment
- D. Creation
Answer: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Q8.What did the unmerciful servant fail to do?
- A. Forgive his fellowservant a small debt, after being forgiven a great debt ✓
- B. Pay his debt
- C. Serve his master
- D. Obey the king
Answer: Forgive his fellowservant a small debt, after being forgiven a great debt
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Q9.What does Micah 7:18 say about God?
- A. He delights in mercy
- B. He pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ✓
- C. He remembers sins forever
- D. He is slow to forgive
Answer: He pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Q10.What does 1 John 1:9 say about confessing our sins?
- A. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness ✓
- B. He will punish us
- C. He will ignore us
- D. He will be angry
Answer: He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.