Matthew 6:14
For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 evil. Amen.
15But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:13He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself and shall not be heard.
Matthew 7:2For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Mark 11:25And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught against any man; that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you your sins.
Colossians 3:13Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.
1 John 3:10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just, is not of God, nor he that loveth 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 →