Luke 17:4
and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, `I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
3Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;
5And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."
Cross References
Matthew 6:12and forgive us our shortcomings, as we also have forgiven those who have failed in their duty towards us;
Matthew 18:16But if he will not listen to you, go again, and ask one or two to go with you, that every word spoken may be attested by two or three witnesses.
Matthew 18:35"In the same way my Heavenly Father will deal with you, if you do not all of you forgive one another from your hearts."
1 Corinthians 13:4Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
Colossians 3:12Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
Matthew Henry on Luke 17:2-11
The Treatment of Offences. 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I… Read the whole commentary →