Matthew 6:14
"For if you forgive others their offences, your Heavenly Father will forgive you also;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
In Context
13and bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil one.'
15but if you do not forgive others their offences, neither will your Father forgive yours.
Cross References
Matthew 7:2for your own judgement will be dealt--and your own measure meted--to yourselves.
Mark 11:25But whenever you stand praying, if you have a grievance against any one, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive you your offences."
Colossians 3:13bearing with one another and readily forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also must forgive.
1 John 3:10By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
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 →