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Matthew 18:24

Guilt and conscience

22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

23 Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.

25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

26 Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Have patience with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.
KJV
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
WEB
When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
ASV
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.
DARBY
And having begun to reckon, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.
BLB
And [on] his having begun to settle, one was brought to him, a debtor of ten thousand talents.
ÅB
Da han begynte på oppgjøret, ble en tjener ført fram for ham som skyldte ham ti tusen talenter.
OTB
Da han begynte oppgjøret, ble en mann som skyldte ham ti tusen talenter brakt til ham.
B1930
Men da han begynte på opgjøret, blev en ført frem for ham, som skyldte ti tusen talenter.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 38:4

    For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

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  • Psalms 130:3–4

    If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

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  • Psalms 40:12

    For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

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  • Luke 13:4

    Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

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  • Luke 16:5

    And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.

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  • Ezra 9:6

    and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

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  • Luke 16:7

    Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

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  • Luke 7:41–42

    “Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

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