14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
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And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)When Christ had condemned what was amiss, he directs to do better; for his are reproofs of instruction. Because we know not what to pray for as we ought, he here helps our infirmities, by putting words into our mouths; after this manner therefore pray ye , Matt. 6:9. So many were the corruptions that had crept into this duty of prayer among the Jews, that Christ saw it needful to give a new direct…
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