Luke 7:42

World English Bible (2000)

When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

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  • Ps 32:1-5 : 1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Ps 49:7-8 : 7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. 8 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
  • Ps 51:1-3 : 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
  • Ps 103:3 : 3 who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
  • Dan 9:18-19 : 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake. 19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
  • Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. 19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Matt 6:12 : 12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
  • Matt 18:25-26 : 25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
  • Matt 18:34 : 34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
  • Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Rom 3:24 : 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
  • Rom 4:5-8 : 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, 7 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
  • Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
  • Col 3:13 : 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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