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Matthew 6:12
Forgive us the wrongs. This asks God to forgive us the wrongs that we have done in exactly the same way which we forgive others! That is, we ask God to do to us just what we have done to others.
Forgive us the wrongs. This asks God to forgive us the wrongs that we have done in exactly the same way which we forgive others! That is, we ask God to do to us just what we have done to others.
MATTHEW 6:12 avfh,kamen Is the second verb in the fifth petition “as we forgive” (AV) or “as we have forgiven” (RSV)? The latter translates the aorist form of the verb (avfh,kamen), read by a* B Z 1...
Verse Matthew 6:12. _AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS_] Sin is represented here under the notion of a _debt_, and as our sins are _many_, they are called here _debts_. God made man that he might live to his...
This passage contains the Lord’s prayer, a composition unequalled for comprehensiveness and for beauty. It is supposed that some of these petitions were taken from those in common use among the Jews....
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
THE FULFILLED LAW IN RELATION TO THE LIFE OF THE PHARISEES. Mt. only, though the digression on Prayer (Matthew 6:7) has parallels in Lk. MATTHEW 6:1 is a general warning; three aspects of the mechani...
FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE, ETC. This is the fifth petition. Debts mean moral obligations unfulfilled, our shortcomings, our sins. Let it be noted with emphasis that God is asked to forgive u...
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
So, then, pray in this way: Our Father in heaven, let your name be held holy: Let your Kingdom come: Let your will be done, as in heaven, so upon earth: Give us to-day bread for the coming day: Forgiv...
OUR DEBTS. Sin is so called because failure in the obligation involves expiation and satisfaction. WE. we also. that is only what _we_ mortals do. "We" is thus emphatic ("also" is ignored by the Auth...
The Lord's Prayer St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection, and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to teach them to pray, "even as John taught h...
_debts_ Sins are debts, shortcomings in the service due to God. _forgive_ The aorist should be read in the Greek text. The force would then be that an act of forgiveness on man's part is past before h...
THE LORD’S PRAYER St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection, and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to teach them to pray, ‘even as John taught h...
ἈΦΉΚΑΜΕΝ for ἀφίεμεν or ἀφίομεν: this important change has the highest support (אBZ). See notes. 12. ἌΦΕΣ ἩΜΙ͂Ν ΤᾺ ὈΦΕΙΛΉΜΑΤΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. ἀφιέναι and ἄφεσις are the words used in the N.T. to express the ac...
VER 12. "AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS." Cyprian, Tr. vii, 15: After supply of food, next pardon of sin is asked for, that he who is fed of God may live in God, and not only the...
_THE ACTION OF PRAYING MATTHEW 6:5-15_ : Prayer is to be a simple petition from a child (Christian) to his Father (God). We are not to pray to be "seen of men" but to be "heard of God." Prayer involve...
ΆΦΕΣ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) отпускать, отменять, аннулировать, прощать, снимать вину, порожденную дурными поступками (BAGD; LN, 1:503). ΌΦΕΊΛΗΜΑ (G3783) долг, то, что причитается, обязат...
DISCOURSE: 1316 THE LORD’S PRAYER Matthew 6:12. _And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors_. THE petitions of men to the Supreme Being will be presented in a different order, according to t...
AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, &C.— 5. We may observe, that this is the only petition in this prayer upon which our Lord enlarges, and indeed it is a petition of the greater consequence, and the more to be...
D. THE MOTIVES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:1-18) 3. HIS MOTIVE FOR PRAYING TO GOD. (Matthew 6:5-15,) TEXT: 6:5-15 5. And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to s...
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS. A vitally important view of sin this-as an offence against God demanding reparation to His dishonoured claims upon our...
1 The Pharisees deemed alms-giving, prayer and fasting the three most eminent exhibitions of piety, for alms was the ideal expression of their relation to their neighbor, prayer of their intercourse w...
AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS] RV 'as we also have forgiven our debtors.' No one who has not forgiven his enemies can pray the Lord's Prayer, which is another proof that it is mea...
THE EARTHLY TREASURE AND THE HEAVENLY TREASURE. When do we lay up 'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms (Matthew 6:2), or pray (Matthew 6:5), or fast (Matthew 6:16), to please God rather than ma...
MAXIMS FOR PRAYER, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER. Perhaps the most significant v. of this section is Matthew 6:8, 'Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.' Christians, therefore, a...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS. — _Duty_ — _i.e.,_ that which we owe, or ought to do — and _debts_ are, it may be noted, only different forms of the same word. A duty unfulfilled is a debt unpaid. Primarily, th...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Fifth petition_. ὀφειλήματα, in classics literal debts, here moral debts, sins (ἁμαρτίας in Luke 11:4). The more men desire God's will to be done the more conscious they are of shortcoming. The more...
_The Lord's Prayer_. Again, in Luke 11:1-4 _vide_ notes there. Here I remark only that Luke's form, true reading, is shorter than Matthew's. On this ground Kamphausen (_Das Gebet des Herrn_) argues fo...
_Further instruction in prayer_. Weiss (Mt.-Evan.) regards this passage as an interpolation, having no proper place in an anti-Pharisaic discourse. Both the opinion and its ground are doubtful. As reg...
HOW TO PRAY AND HOW TO FAST Matthew 6:9-18 This might more fitly be termed the “disciples' prayer.” As we tread its stately aisles, we cannot but think of the myriads who have stood on the same pavem...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
Of all the petitions this alone is repeated twice. God puts our judgment in our own hands, that none might complain, being the author of his own sentence. He could have forgiven us our sins without th...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. We have here the pattern of prayer; which the LORD JESUS himself hath...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_FORGIVENESS FOR THE FORGIVING_ ‘Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.’ Matthew 6:12 It is with the precious promises of God’s Word before us, and with all the bitter remembrance of our...
12._And forgive us our debts _Here it may be proper that we should be reminded of what I said a little before, that Christ, in arranging the prayers of his people, did not consider which was first or...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS,.... Nothing is more frequent in the Jewish writings than to call sins חובי, "debts"; and the phrase, of forgiving, is used both of God and men. Thus the prayer of Solomon is...
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Ver. 12. _And forgive us our debts, &c._] Loose us (saith the original) and let us go free, (αφες): for unpardoned sinners are in the bond of iniq...
_And forgive us our debts_, &c. The suffering of punishment for transgressing God's laws is a debt which sinners owe to the divine justice; and “when we ask God, in prayer, to _forgive our debts_, we...
DEBTS; sins. DEBTORS; those who have trepassed against us....
One of the greatest spiritual and temporal needs: AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS. We daily contract an enormous, an unbelievable amount of debts before God. And the more we desire...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
9-15 Christ saw it needful to show his disciples what must commonly be the matter and method of their prayer. Not that we are tied up to the use of this only, or of this always; yet, without doubt, i...
Our Saviour here doth not teach us the order in which we should pray for good things for ourselves, only in three petitions comprehends whatsoever we should ask of God. For doubtless we are obliged, a...
1 Clement For thus He spoke: "Be ye merciful, that ye may obtain mercy; forgive, that it may be forgiven to you; as ye do, so shall it be done unto you; as ye judge, so shall ye be judged; as ye are...
Matthew 6:12 And G2532 forgive G863 (G5628) us G2254 our G2257 debts G3783 As G2532 G5613 we...
‘And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors'. ‘Forgive us our debts.' The meaning of this petition, as Luke specifically brings out, is that we are to pray for the forgiveness of...
HOW TO PRAY - THE LORD'S PRAYER (6:9-15). The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). We should note in using the description ‘The Lord's Prayer' that this is not to be seen as how the Lord Himself actually pra...
THEIR RELIGIOUS EXERCISES ARE TO BE KNOWN ONLY TO THE FATHER AND NOT TO MEN (6:1-18). We will now, therefore, initially consider together the first four passages which deal with their religious behavi...
Matthew 6:12. AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, etc. (_fifth petition). ‘_ Debts,' undoubtedly, moral obligations unfulfilled, _i.e., sins._ See Matthew 6:14, which requires this sense. AS WE HAVE FORGIVEN....
Matthew 6:5-15. SECOND EXAMPLE (_Prayer)._...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
Our Lord passes from moral to religious duties, enjoining a ‘righteousness' (Matthew 6:1), which exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees (‘hypocrites'), and has regard to the character of our ‘Fathe...
OUR DEBTS (τα οφειληματα ημων). Luke (Luke 11:4) has "sins" (αμαρτιας). In the ancient Greek οφειλημα is common for actual legal debts as in Romans 4:4, but here it is used of moral and spiritual de...
WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS This is legal ground, (compare (Ephesians 4:32), which is grace. Under law forgiveness is conditioned upon a like spirit in us; under grace we are forgiven for Christ's sake, a...
Matthew 6:9 , MATTHEW 6:12 I. The request. (1) We are in debt to God. We have only to listen to the voice of conscience to admit this at once. For amongst the deepest of all our instincts is the sense...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven._ The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
_Forgive us our debts._ FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS There is a twofold debt which man oweth to God. I. A debt of duty, worship, and obedience; II. A debt of punishment. (_Thomas Manton, D. D._) OUR DEBT...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:12 FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS (the fifth petition) does not mean that believers need to ask daily for justification, since believers are right with God from the moment of initial s...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:9 Jesus gives his disciples an example to follow when praying. The prayer consists of an invocation and six petitions. ⇐...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:5 Prayer was also expected of God’s people. Public prayer was a common practice in NT times. ⇐...
JESUS TEACHES ON PRAYER MATTHEW 6:9-13; LUKE 11:2-4; MATTHEW 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. L
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:1. ALMS.—_Righteousness_ (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding, better than “alms.” In ch. Matthew 5:20, the disciples a...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 John 1:7; 1 Kings 8:30; 1 Kings 8:34; 1 Kings 8:39; 1 Kings 8:50;...
Debts [ο φ ε ι λ η μ α τ α]. So rightly, A. V., and Rev. (compare Luke 11:4). Sin is pictured as a debt, and the sinner as a debtor (compare Matthew 18:28; Matthew 18:30). Accordingly the word represe...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) Matthew 5:43; _Matthew 6:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is only natural. But...
And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors — Give us, O Lord, redemption in thy blood, even the forgiveness of sins: as thou enablest us freely and fully to forgive every man, so do thou...