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She discovers that he has left the room numerous times. When she interrogates him about this, she says, “Because the principle doesn’t change if you were out seven times, or seventy, or seventy times seven.” Then she decides to amputate his leg to hobble him. [7]
When Peter asked Jesus how often to forgive someone, Jesus said "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times". [38] Jesus warned that God's forgiveness for your sins depends on your forgiveness towards others. [39] In one of the gospels, Jesus during his crucifixion asks God to forgive those who crucified him. [40]
Chapter 18 of the Gospel of Matthew contains the fourth of the five Discourses of Matthew, also called the Discourse on the Church or the ecclesiastical discourse. [1] [2] It compares "the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven" to a child, and also includes the parables of the lost sheep and the unforgiving servant, the second of which also refers to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Muhammad said, "By Allah, I seek the forgiveness of Allah and I turn to Him in repentance more than seventy times each day." (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, no. 6307) God wants his servants to repent and forgives them, he rejoices over it, as Muhammad said: "When a person repents, Allah rejoices more than one of you who found his camel after he lost ...
Matthew 6:7–16 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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Calvin's interpretation is perhaps better supported by the nature of the parable and by the Greek text, [7] [10] [11] in which "for she loved much" can be read as the result, rather than the cause, of "her many sins have been forgiven." [7] [10] [11] Many modern translations, both Protestant and Catholic, reword verse 47 for clarity, e.g.:
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