This Bible study is based on Bible Readings for the Home, a topical study presented in a question-and-answer format. The scripture references come from both the KJV and NIV translations. Additionally, we’ve provided links to each verse from the World English Bible for a more modern interpretation. We encourage you to follow along in your own Bible, reflect on the guided questions, and highlight the verses that speak to you. Feel free to share this study with your friends and family. Enjoy the journey!
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Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him,
“I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
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Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
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When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
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But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’
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The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
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“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,
and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
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“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’
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He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.
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So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.
8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
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Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
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“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
