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Always Forgive One Another From The Heart, As God Has Forgiven You

21 Then having come to Him, Peter said to Him, “Lord, how often[a] will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven-times?” 22 Jesus says to him, “I do not say to you up to seven-times, but up to seventy-times[b] [and][c] seven. 23 For this reason, the kingdom of the heavens became-like[d] a man who was a king, who wished to settle the account with his slaves.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:21 Peter is responding to v 15, ‘If he listens to you’.
  2. Matthew 18:22 That is, seventy-occasions, as also with ‘seven-times’ in v 21.
  3. Matthew 18:22 For a total of seventy-seven. Or, [times], making 490.
  4. Matthew 18:23 Or, is like. Same grammar as in 13:24.

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