Matthew 18:32-35

Withholding forgiveness is not an option! 

When we have been forgiven our sins our love for other sinners should abound more and more. No one sin is greater than another and we have all sinned except one…Jesus Christ.

This verse is a warning about the penalty for not forgiving others. All of a Christian’s sins are forgiven and forgotten forever. But this parable illustrates the Christian duty to forgive others. If our forgiveness should be in direct proportion to the incredible amount that we have been forgiven, then we must always be willing to forgive.

Matthew 18:32-35

³² Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! ³ I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. ³³ Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ ⁴ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

³⁵ “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

¹² And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 

Matthew 6:12

^26 4But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” 

Mark 11:26

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. 

James 2:13