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Luke 7:42

When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”

Berean Standard Bible

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

41“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

43“I suppose the one who was forgiven more,” Simon replied. “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:13The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

Psalms 49:7No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

Psalms 103:3He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Daniel 9:18Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

Matthew 6:12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven 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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