American Standard Version
Matthew 6:14
14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
- New International Version (NIV)For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Context of Matthew 6:14
12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 16Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.
Read all of Matthew 6Matthew 6:14 word by word
ἐὰν γὰρ ἀφῆτε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ παραπτώματα αὐτῶν, ἀφήσει καὶ ὑμῖν ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ οὐράνιος.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Matthew 6:14
- Matthew 6:12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- Matthew 7:2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.
- Matthew 18:21Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times?
- Proverbs 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
- Mark 11:25And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
- Ephesians 4:32and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
- Colossians 3:13forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
- James 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
- 1 John 3:10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Commentaries on Matthew 6:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14If ye forgive men - He who shows mercy to men receives mercy from God. For a king to forgive his subjects a hundred millions of treasons against his person and authority, on this one condition, that they wilt henceforth live peaceably with him and with each other, is what we shall never see; and yet this is but the shadow of that which Christ promises on his Father's part to all true penitents. A man can have little regard for his salvation, who refuses…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14For if ye forgive men their trespasses - If ye forgive others when they offend or injure you. Your heavenly Father will also forgive you - This is constantly required in the Bible. See the notes at Matthew 6:12. Our Saviour says we should forgive even if the offence be committed seventy times seven times, Matthew 18:22. By this is meant, that when a man asks forgiveness, we are cordially and forever to pardon the offence; we are to declare our willingness…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 Christ saw it needful to show his disciples what must commonly be the matter and method of their prayer. Not that we are tied up to the use of this only, or of this always; yet, without doubt, it is very good to use it. It has much in a little; and it is used acceptably no further than it is used with understanding, and without being needlessly repeated. The petitions are six; the first three relate more expressly to God and his honour, the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. For if ye forgive men, &c.--See on Mt 6:12.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Matthew 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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