Luke 7:47

Jesus declares the woman's many sins forgiven, evidenced by her great love, while one forgiven little loves little. Love flows from forgiveness received.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• John 21:15–17So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
• Eph 6:24Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Luke 5:20–21Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
• Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
• Matt 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
• Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Luke 7:39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
• Luke 7:42–43When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Ezek 36:29–32I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
• Ezek 16:63that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

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