Treasures and Worry
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6:14 · Berean Standard Bible
When you forgive the people who have wronged you, your heavenly Father forgives you in return.
Jesus just finished teaching the Lord's Prayer, and now He zeros in on forgiveness because He knows it's the hardest part.
Jesus, speaking directly to His followers.
Forgiveness isn't just a nice idea in God's kingdom; it's the currency of grace that flows both ways between you and God.
Jesus establishes a conditional link between human forgiveness (aphiemi) and divine forgiveness, emphasizing that extending mercy to others is prerequisite to receiving it from God.
Immediately after teaching the Lord's Prayer, Jesus expands on the forgiveness petition, underscoring its central importance.
Jesus, elaborating on the Lord's Prayer.
This teaching connects the prayer model to lived ethics, making forgiveness a defining mark of those who belong to God's kingdom.
12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
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