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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.
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.
This depiction by Domenico Fetti (c. 1620) shows the unforgiving servant choking the other debtor. The parable is told as an answer to a question by Peter about forgiveness: Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
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.”
Read through these powerful verses to find inspiration for how you can help others. It may not always be easy, but as a person of faith, God calls upon you to serve others and bring his light to ...
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: