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 kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Mark 11:25Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
• Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
• Matt 18:21–35Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
• 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.
• 1 Jn 1:7–9But 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.
• Luke 11:4Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
• Luke 6:37Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
• Exod 34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
• Ps 32:1By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• Luke 17:3–5Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
• Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
• 1 Kgs 8:39then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
• Luke 7:40–48Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”
• 1 Kgs 8:30Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
• 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.
• Matt 6:14–15“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• Dan 9:19Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
• 1 Kgs 8:34then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
• 1 Kgs 8:50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
• Neh 5:12–13Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
• Acts 13:38Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

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