Matthew
King James Version (KJV)
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“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.”
King James Version (KJV)
18:34 His lord delivered him to the tormentors - Imprisonment is a much severer punishment in the eastern countries than in ours. State criminals, especially when condemned to it, are not only confined to a very mean and scanty allowance, but are frequently loaded with clogs or heavy yokes, so that they can neither lie nor sit at ease: and by frequent scourgings and sometimes rackings are brought to an untimely end. Till he should pay all that was due to him - That is, without all hope of release, for this he could never do. How observable is this whole account; as well as the great inference our Lord draws from it: The debtor was freely and fully forgiven; He wilfully and grievously offended; His pardon was retracted, the whole debt required, and the offender delivered to the tormentors for ever. And shall we still say, but when we are once freely and fully forgiven, our pardon can never be retracted? Verily, verily, I say unto you, So likewise will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Mt 18:35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, etc. Observe Christ says, "My heavenly Father", not "your". God will not be their heavenly Father unless they emulate his spirit of mercy, and are as ready to forgive others their trespasses as he is to forgive their own. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" (Mt 5:7). "As ye mete to others it shall be measured to you" (Mt 7:2). "Forgive us our trespasses even as we forgive those who trespass against us "(Mt 6:12). "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap" (Ga 6:7). If we are hard and unforgiving to our fellow-men, we can never expect our heavenly Father to overlook our own sins. It is a vital doctrine that we, by our own mind towards others, determine what shall be the mind of God towards us.
So likewise shall my heauenly Father doe also vnto you, if yee from your hearts forgiue not euery one his brother their trespasses.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
- American Standard Version (1901)
So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.
- Basic English Bible
Thus also my heavenly Father shall do to you if ye forgive not from your hearts every one his brother.
- Darby Bible
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do to you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
- Webster's Bible
In the same way my Heavenly Father will deal with you, if you do not all of you forgive one another from your hearts.
- Weymouth Bible
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
- World English Bible
So my fadir of heuene schal do to you, if ye foryyuen not euery man to his brother, of youre hertes.
- Wycliffe Bible
so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'
- Youngs Literal Bible