'And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.Matthew 6:12 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAnd forgive us our debts - Sin is represented here under the notion of a debt, and as our sins are many, they are called here debts. God made man that he might live to his glory, and gave him a law to walk by; and if, when he does any thing that tends not to glorify God, he contracts a debt with Divine Justice, how much more is he debtor when he breaks the law by actual transgression! It has been justly observed, "All the attributes of God are reasons of obedience to man; those attributes are infinite; every sin is an act of ingratitude or rebellion against all these attributes; therefore sin is infinitely sinful."
Forgive us - Man has nothing to pay: if his debts are not forgiven, they must stand charged against him for ever, as he is absolutely insolvent. Forgiveness, therefore, must come from the free mercy of God in Christ: and how strange is it we cannot have the old debt canceled, without (by that very means) contracting a new one, as great as the old! but the credit is transferred from Justice to Mercy. While sinners we are in debt to infinite Justice; when pardoned, in debt to endless Mercy: and as a continuance in a state of grace necessarily implies a continual communication of mercy, so the debt goes on increasing ad infinitum. Strange economy in the Divine procedure, which by rendering a man an infinite debtor, keeps him eternally dependent on his Creator! How good is God! And what does this state of dependence imply? A union with, and participation of, the fountain of eternal goodness and felicity!
As we forgive our debtors - It was a maxim among the ancient Jews, that no man should lie down in his bed, without forgiving those who had offended him. That man condemns himself to suffer eternal punishment, who makes use of this prayer with revenge and hatred in his heart. He who will not attend to a condition so advantageous to himself (remitting a hundred pence to his debtor, that his own creditor may remit him 10,000 talents) is a madman, who, to oblige his neighbor to suffer an hour, is himself determined to suffer everlastingly! This condition of forgiving our neighbor, though it cannot possibly merit any thing, yet it is that condition without which God will pardon no man. See Matthew 6:14, Matthew 6:15.
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Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
1 Kings 8:30,34,39,50 And listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place...
Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalm 130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...
Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and do; defer not...
Acts 13:38 Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
1 John 1:7-9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another...
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Matthew 18:21-27,34 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times...
Luke 7:40-48 And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to you. And he said, Master, say on...
Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation...
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Matthew 6:14,15 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you...
Matthew 18:21,22,28-35 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times...
Nehemiah 5:12,13 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as you say. Then I called the priests...
Mark 11:25,26 And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any...
Luke 6:37 Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven:
Luke 17:3-5 Take heed to yourselves: If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him...
Ephesians 4:32 And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
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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