Matthew 18:35
33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’
34 In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.
That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
- KJV
- So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
- WEB
- So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
- ASV
- So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
- DARBY
- Thus also my heavenly Father shall do to you if ye forgive not from your hearts every one his brother.
- BLB
- Thus also My heavenly Father will do to you⁺ unless each of you⁺ should forgive his brother from your⁺ hearts.”
- ÅB
- Slik skal min himmelske Far også gjøre med enhver av dere som ikke fra hjertet tilgir sin bror.»
- OTB
- «På samme måte vil min himmelske Far behandle hver av dere hvis dere ikke tilgir deres bror eller søster av hjertet.»
- B1930
- Således skal også min himmelske Fader gjøre med eder om ikke enhver av eder av hjertet tilgir sin bror.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 6:14–15
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Read in contextJames 2:13
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Read in contextLuke 6:37–38
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Read in contextMark 11:25
And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
Read in contextMatthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Read in contextProverbs 21:2
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
Read in contextProverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
Read in contextMatthew 7:1–2
“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
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