Luke 7:42

And of them not having to repay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore, do thou say, will love him more?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

In Context

41There were two debtors to a certain creditor, the one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

43And having answered, Simon said, I suppose that it was to whom he forgave more. And he said to him, Thou have judged correctly.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:13And the woman said, Why then have thou devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as he who is guilty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished one.

Psalms 49:7none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him

Psalms 103:3who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases,

Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

Daniel 9:18O my God, incline thine ear, and hear. Open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sak

Matthew 6:12And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.

Matthew Henry on Luke 7:37-50

Christ in the House of the Pharisee. 36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now… Read the whole commentary →

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