Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

English Standard Version
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

New American Standard Bible
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

King James Bible
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

International Standard Version
And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

American Standard Version
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Darby Bible Translation
and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Young's Literal Translation
and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:21
For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all these great things, to make your servant know them.

Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

Matthew 18:33
Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, even as I had pity on you?

1 Corinthians 13:4
Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up,

2 Corinthians 2:7
So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:10
To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

Ephesians 5:1
Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

Colossians 3:13
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:29-32 Filthy words proceed from corruption in the speaker, and they corrupt the minds and manners of those who hear them: Christians should beware of all such discourse. It is the duty of Christians to seek, by the blessing of God, to bring persons to think seriously, and to encourage and warn believers by their conversation. Be ye kind one to another. This sets forth the principle of love in the heart, and the outward expression of it, in a humble, courteous behaviour. Mark how God's forgiveness causes us to forgive. God forgives us, though we had no cause to sin against him. We must forgive, as he has forgiven us. All lying, and corrupt communications, that stir up evil desires and lusts, grieve the Spirit of God. Corrupt passions of bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, evil-speaking, and malice, grieve the Holy Spirit. Provoke not the holy, blessed Spirit of God to withdraw his presence and his gracious influences. The body will be redeemed from the power of the grave at the resurrection day. Wherever that blessed Spirit dwells as a Sanctifier, he is the earnest of all the joys and glories of that redemption day; and we should be undone, should God take away his Holy Spirit from us.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

32. (Lu 7:42; Col 3:12).

even as—God hath shown Himself "kind, tender-hearted, and forgiving to you"; it is but just that you in turn shall be so to your fellow men, who have not erred against you in the degree that you have erred against God (Mt 18:33).

God for Christ's sake—rather as Greek, "God in Christ" (2Co 5:19). It is in Christ that God vouchsafes forgiveness to us. It cost God the death of His Son, as man, to forgive us. It costs us nothing to forgive our fellow man.

hath forgiven—rather as Greek, "forgave you." God has, once for all, forgiven sin in Christ, as a past historical fact.