Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
In Context
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One.
15But if you forgive not men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses.
Cross References
Matthew 7:2for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you.
Mark 11:25And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have any thing against any one, that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your offenses.
Colossians 3:13bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you:
1 John 3:10By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:10-16
The Sermon on the Mount. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15 But if ye… Read the whole commentary →