Luke 17:3–4
If your brother changes his mind, forgive him, even seven times a day
Study it word by word3Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he changes his mind, forgive him.
4And if seven times a day he sins against you and seven times turns back to you, saying, ‘I change my mind,’ you will forgive him.”
In its context
1And he said to his disciples, “It is impossible that stumbling blocks should not come; but woe to the one through whom they come!
2It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
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5And the apostles said to the Lord, “Add faith to us!”
6And the Lord said, “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
Its words in the original
- προσέχετεprosechete· pay attention, beware
Pay attention to, take heed; "watch out", be on guard against something; also give oneself to something.
- ἁμάρτῃhamartēi· sin
Sin: fail God, do what he forbids.
- ἀδελφόςadelphos· brother
Brother. Also a close relative, a fellow countryman and, among believers, a brother in the faith.
- ἐπιτίμησονepitimēson· rebuke, warn
Rebuke, reprove; order sternly.
- μετανοήσῃmetanoēsēi· change one's mind
Change one's mind: turn around one's way of thinking, and with it one's way of living, to return to God. It is usually translated "repent".
- ἄφεςaphes· let go, forgive
Leave, let go, allow; said of sins and debts, forgive.
- ἑπτάκιςheptakis· seven times
Seven times.
- ἡμέραςhēmeras· day
Day. "In the days of" someone: in their time.
- ἐπιστρέψῃepistrepsēi· turn around
Turn, turn around; turn back (to God).
- λέγωνlegōn· say
Say, speak; in the passive, "be called".