Matthew 6:14–15
Jesus teaches the link between being forgiven and forgiving
Study it word by word14For if you forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;
15but if you do not forgive people, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
In its context
12and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors;
13and do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.’
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16“And when you fast, do not become gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to people as fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received in full their reward.
17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
Its words in the original
- ἀφῆτεaphēte· let go, forgive
Leave, let go, allow; said of sins and debts, forgive.
- ἀνθρώποιςanthrōpois· human being, man
Human being, person, man (without distinguishing male or female).
- παραπτώματαparaptōmata· offense, wrongdoing
Offense, false step, transgression.
- πατὴρpatēr· father, Father
Father; also ancestor.
- οὐράνιοςouranios· heavenly
Heavenly, of heaven, belonging to heaven.