Matthew 6:15 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 6:15

But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

KJV

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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Commentary

2 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Matthew (1274)

This condition is also necessary, because without it there is no remission of sins; hence: But if you will not forgive, etc. Nor is this surprising, because no sin can ever be forgiven without charity: "Charity covers all offenses" (Pr 10:12). For he who harbors …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Not as if this were the only condition required; there must be repentance and faith, and new obedience; but as where other graces are in truth, there will be this, so this will be a good evidence of the sincerity of our other graces. He that relents toward his brother, thereby shows that he repents toward his God. Those which in the prayer are called debts, are here ca

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But if ye forgive not - He who does not awake at the sound of so loud a voice, is not asleep but dead. A vindictive man excludes himself from all hope of eternal life, and himself seals his own damnation. Trespasses - Παραπτωματα, from παρα and πιπτω, to fall off. What a remarkable difference there is between this word and οφειληματα, debts, in Mat 6:12! Men’s sins against us are only their stumblings, or fallings off from the duties they owe us; but our’s are debts to God’s justice, which we can never discharge.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐὰν	ean	only	G1437 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
μὴ	mē	unless	G3361 →
ἀφῆτε	aphēte	you shall forgive	G863 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
ἀνθρώποις	anthrōpois	men	G444 →
οὐδὲ	oude	neither	G3761 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πατὴρ	patēr	Father	G3962 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
ἀφήσει	aphēsei	will forgive	G863 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
παραπτώματα	paraptōmata	trespasses	G3900 →
ὑμῶν.¶	humōn	of you.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 18:35
That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
leads to
- Matthew 6:14–15
  For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- James 2:13
  For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Luke 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.
- Mark 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.”
- Matthew 6:12
  And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.