Matthew 6:12

We ask God to forgive our debts as we forgive those who wrong us. Receiving God's mercy and extending it to others belong together.

Cross-references · 22

• Eph 4:32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
• Mark 11:25And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
• Eph 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
• Matt 18:21–35Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
• Col 3:13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
• 1 Jn 1:7–9But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
• Luke 6:37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
• Exod 34:7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
• Ps 32:1Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• Luke 17:3–5Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
• Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
• 1 Kgs 8:39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
• Luke 7:40–48And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
• 1 Kgs 8:30And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
• Isa 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Matt 6:14–15For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
• Dan 9:19O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
• 1 Kgs 8:34Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
• 1 Kgs 8:50And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
• Neh 5:12–13Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
• Acts 13:38Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

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