Love And Forgiveness

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;'

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, — read the full passage →

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them; — read the full passage →

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

`To the Lord our God <FI>are<Fi> the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;' — read the full passage →

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

I--I <FI>am<Fi> He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.

Who <FI>is<Fi> a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He--He delighteth <FI>in<Fi> kindness. — read the full passage →

Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

`And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit, — read the full passage →

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love, — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous, — read the full passage →

`But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins--(then saith he to the paralytic) --having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.' — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou--Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

For Thou, Lord, <FI>art<Fi> good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

As the distance of east from west He hath put far from us our transgressions.

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

but if ye may not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

let all your things be done in love.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee? — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out--to remission of sins;

Who <FI>is<Fi> a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He--He delighteth <FI>in<Fi> kindness.

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left. — read the full passage →

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

I--I <FI>am<Fi> He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember. — read the full passage →

I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

`Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, — read the full passage →

and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;' — read the full passage →

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him; — read the full passage →

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch. — read the full passage →

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me? — read the full passage →

and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts, — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful <FI>is<Fi> He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.

Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I <FI>am<Fi> kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.