Luke 7:42

Unable to pay, both debtors are forgiven, and Jesus asks which will love the lender more. The question presses Simon toward the lesson on gratitude.

Cross-references · 20

• Rom 3:24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
• Dan 9:18–19My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
• Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Eph 4:32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
• Col 3:13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
• Ps 49:7–8none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
• Ps 32:1–5By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• Ps 51:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Ps 103:3who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Matt 18:25–26But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
• Matt 18:34His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
• Rom 5:6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
• Rom 4:5–8But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
• Matt 6:12Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

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