Matthew 6:14
For, if you forgive others their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also;
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
In Context
13and take us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil.’
15but, if you do not forgive others their offences, not even your Father will forgive your offences.
Cross References
Matthew 7:2For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the measure that you mete will be meted out to you.
Mark 11:25‘And, whenever you stand up to pray, forgive any grievance that you have against any one, that your Father who is in Heaven also may forgive you your offences.”
Colossians 3:13bearing with one another, and, when there is any ground for complaint, forgiving one another freely. As the Master freely forgave you, so you must forgive one another.
1 John 3:10By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil — No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love 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 →