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Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Forgiveness, Salvation, Relationship, Abandonment, Distress, Triumph, and; Reunion. [1] The sayings form part of the Stations of the Cross, a Christian meditation that is often used during Lent, Holy Week and Good Friday. The Dominican author Timothy Radcliffe sees the number seven as significant, as the number of perfection in the Bible. He ...
Matthew 6:7–16 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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When Peter asked Jesus how often to forgive someone, Jesus said "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times". [38] Jesus warned that God's forgiveness for your sins depends on your forgiveness towards others. [39] In one of the gospels, Jesus during his crucifixion asks God to forgive those who crucified him. [40]
David is depicted giving a penitential psalm in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. The Penitential Psalms or Psalms of Confession, so named in Cassiodorus's commentary of the 6th century AD, are the Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143 in the Hebrew numbering).
The disciples' power to forgive sins is linked to the gift of the Spirit in John 20:22, and not in human power. [3] The verbs for forgiving and retaining are in the passive form, indicating that God is the one in action. [ 3 ]
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