“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you — the virtue replaces vice: chrestos ('kind,' useful, fitting), eusplaghnos ('compassionate,' tender-hearted), charizomai ('forgive') allelon ('one another'), grounded in the cosmic paradigm: kathos kai theou en Christō echaristate hymin ('just as God in Christ forgave you'), the cross as the measure of community forgiveness.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:32
If we are to attain to the kingdom of Heaven, it is not enough to abandon wickedness, but there must be abundant practice of that which is good also. To be delivered indeed from hell we must abstain from wickedness; but to attain to the kingdom we must cleave fast to virtue. Do you not know that even in the tribunals of the heathen, when examination is made of men's deeds, and the whole city is assembled, this is the case? Nay, there was an ancient custom among the heathen,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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