The Healing of Forgiveness

Weeping Jesus

Matthew 6:14 (NKJV) "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 18:21-22 (NKJV) 21  Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" 22  Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Colossians 3:13 (GW) 13  Put up with each other, and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

1 John 1:8-9 (GW) 8  If we say, “We aren't sinful” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9  God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we've done wrong.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one. Agnes Sanford [Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World]

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