Where is it in the Bible?
Matthew 6:14
14For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
In other translations
- ESV
- 14For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
- NLT
- 14If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you.
- CSB
- 14For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.
- KJV
- 14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
The surrounding passage
Matthew 6:12–16, King James Version
12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Context
From the Sermon on the Mount, immediately after the Lord's Prayer (6:9–13). Jesus returns to one line of that prayer, about being forgiven as we forgive others, and expands on it. The following verse states the reverse.
About the book of Matthew
Jesus the promised King, from Bethlehem to the Great Commission.
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