How important is forgiveness to your salvation?
Forgive or the Father will not forgive.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
- Matthew 6:14-15 -
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
- Mark 11:25 -
Break one law you break them all.
(This would also includes unforgiveness)
9. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
10. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
- James 2:9-10 -
Forgiveness permits love to continue
Whoever forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever keeps bringing up the issue separates the closest of friends.(God's Word Translation)
-Proverbs 17:8-10 -
Is there someone you haven't forgiven? You can't move forward with God until you do.
How many times should I forgive a person?
21. Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
22. Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
- Matthews 18:21-22 -
70 X 7
Forgive or the Father will not forgive.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
- Matthew 6:14-15 -
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
- Mark 11:25 -
Break one law you break them all.
(This would also includes unforgiveness)
9. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
10. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
- James 2:9-10 -
Forgiveness permits love to continue
Whoever forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever keeps bringing up the issue separates the closest of friends.(God's Word Translation)
-Proverbs 17:8-10 -
Is there someone you haven't forgiven? You can't move forward with God until you do.
How many times should I forgive a person?
21. Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
22. Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
- Matthews 18:21-22 -
70 X 7