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The Lord's Prayer is appended by two verses on forgiveness. [1] Allison notes a similar sequence in Mark 11:23–25 and Luke 17:3–6 and proposes a traditional connection between prayer and forgiveness, where prayer is efficacious when members of the community are reconciled to each other.
To be pious one must forgive one's fellows as God forgives all. This verse presupposes universal sinfulness. Everyone, no matter how holy, has sins that need to be forgiven The patristic scholar Henry Chadwick says that Matthew 6:12 refers to Sirach 28:2 ("Forgive your neighbor a wrong, and then, when you petition, your sins will be pardoned ...
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained.
1 Peter 4:8-9 “Above all, show sincere love to each other, because love brings about the forgiveness of many sins. Open your homes to each other without complaining.”
The verses immediately following the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:14–15 [67] show Jesus teaching that the forgiveness of our sin/debt (by God) is linked with how we forgive others, as in the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant Matthew 18:23–35, [68] which Matthew gives later. R. T. France comments:
In the next verse, in both accounts, some who hear Jesus' cry imagine that he is calling for help from Elijah (Ēlīyā in Aramaic). The Aramaic word form שבקתני šəḇaqtanī is based on the verb šǝḇaq / šāḇaq , 'to allow, to permit, to forgive, and to forsake', with the perfect tense ending -t (2nd person singular: 'you'), and ...
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