Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
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