Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 6:14
(4) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
(4) They that forgive wrongs, to them sins are forgiven, but revenge is prepared for them that take revenge.
(4) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
(4) They that forgive wrongs, to them sins are forgiven, but revenge is prepared for them that take revenge.
Verse Matthew 6:14. _IF YE FORGIVE MEN_] He who shows mercy to men receives mercy from God. For a king to forgive his subjects a hundred millions of treasons against his person and authority, on this...
FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES - If ye forgive others when they offend or injure you. YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU - This is constantly required in the Bible. See the notes at Ma...
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...
FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN... YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL FORGIVE YOU. Our Lord makes it. condition of our obtaining forgiveness that we shall forgive. The importance of this condition is shown by our Lord r...
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...
IF. Implying. contingency. Greek. _ean_ (with Subj.) See App-118. Forgiveness was conditional in that dispensation of the kingdom. TRESPASSES. lapses, varying in degree. Greek plural of _paraptoma_....
ΠΑΡΑΠΤΏΜΑΤΑ. Another conception of sin, either (1) a false step, a blunder, or (2) a fall beside the way (cp. παραπεσόντες, Hebrews 6:6), so a transgression. In ὀφειλήματα sin is viewed in its aspect...
VER 14. "FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU: 15. BUT IF YE FORGIVE NOT MEN THEIR TRESPASSES, NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER FORGIVE YOUR TRESPASSES." Rabanus...
_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...
ΈΆΝ (G1437) с _conj._ если. Служит вступлением к _conj._ 3 типа, предполагающему, что условие является возможным, ΆΦΉΤΕ _aor. conj. act., см._ Matthew 6:12. ΠΑΡΆΠΤΩΜΑ (G3900) ложный шаг, ошибка, про...
DISCOURSE: 1319 A FORGIVING SPIRIT NECESSARY TO OUR ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD Matthew 6:14. _For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men th...
FOR IF YE FORGIVE, &C.— From what our Lord here says, we are not to imagine that the forgiving of injuries will entitle us to pardon: it only places us in a condition to receive it through faith alone...
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...
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN ......
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
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...
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 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...
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...
The condition implied in the Prayer itself is more distinctly asserted. It is, as we have seen, not an arbitrary condition, but the result of the eternal laws of the divine order. Repentance is the co...
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...
_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...
Here he again recommendeth the forgiving of others, as the means of obtaining forgiveness. (Haydock)...
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...
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. We must not suppose from those expressions at the close of the LORD'S prayer, as if the condition of our f...
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...
_THE GRAND DOXOLOGY_ ‘For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen.’ Matthew 6:13 As the Lord’s Prayer began by asking three things concerning God,—that His name, that His...
_FOURFOLD POWER_ ‘Thine is … the power.’ Matthew 6:13 As we travel back into the past with its temptations, its failures, and its scant victories, do we not feel the lack of power? There are four d...
Here Christ only explains the reason why that condition was added, _Forgive us, as we forgive _The reason is, that God will not be ready to hear us, unless we also show ourselves ready to grant forgiv...
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...
FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES,.... Christ here refers to the petition in Matthew 6:12 which is enforced with this reason and argument, "as", or "for", so Luke 11:4 "we forgive our debtors"; w...
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: Ver. 14. _For if ye forgive men their trespasses_] Our Saviour resumeth, and inculcateth the fifth petition with a...
_If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you_ We are not to infer from this, that the forgiving of injuries alone will entitle us to pardon. Surely not. Repentance t...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, a special command of the Lord being issued in this instance on account of the significance attaching to the act. Take these evidences, this evidence of...
A necessary warning: 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. T...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:15"....
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians Let no one of you, therefore, cherish any grudge against his neighbour. For says our Lord, "Forgive, and it shall be forgiven unto you."[57] Shepherd of Hermas S...
Matthew 6:14 For G1063 if G1437 forgive G863 (G5632) men G444 their G846 trespasses G3900 your G5216 heavenly...
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...
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...
For if you forgive men their trespasses, Your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, Neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Jesus then ad...
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...
Matthew 6:14-15. These verses explain the fifth petition (Matthew 6:12), substituting the word ‘trespass' for ‘debt,' as some liturgies do in the Lord's Prayer itself. In ‘debt' the notion of obligati...
TRESPASSES (παραπτωματα). This is no part of the Model Prayer. The word "trespass" is literally "falling to one side," a lapse or deviation from truth or uprightness. The ancients sometimes used it...
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...
IF YOU FORGIVE OTHERS. Our Lord makes it a condition of forgiveness that we show a spirit of mercy and forgiveness to others....
_If ye forgive men._ MUTUAL FORGIVENESS I. All mankind as transgressors are deeply indebted to God’s law. II. That if ever man be saved it must be by an act of pure mercy. III. That the Scriptural...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:5 Prayer was also expected of God’s people. Public prayer was a common practice in NT times. ⇐...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:14 FORGIVE YOUR TRESPASSES refers to restoring relationship following sin, not salvation. ⇐...
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 3:10; Colossians 3:13; Ephesians 4:32; James 2:13; Matthew
Trespasses [π α ρ α π τ ω μ α τ α]. The Lord here uses another word for sins, and still another [α μ α ρ τ ι α ς] appears in Luke's version of the prayer, though he also says, "every one that is indeb...
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...
GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR SINS Matthew 6:14; _Matthew 18:21_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question which the words of our first text propound, is, Is forgiveness conditional? In answering this query we would...
Mark 11:25....
There being no duty to which our corrupt natures are more backward than this of forgiving injuries, our Saviour repeats that duty over and over, and frequently inculcates it in the holy Gospels; assur...