Luke 7:47

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

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  • 1 John 4:19 : 19 we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
  • John 21:15-17 : 15 When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' 16 He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.' 17 He saith to him the third time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,
  • Luke 5:20-21 : 20 and he having seen their faith, said to him, `Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.' 21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, `Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
  • 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that `is' in Christ Jesus:
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
  • Luke 7:39 : 39 And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind `is' the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'
  • Luke 7:42-43 : 42 and they not having `wherewith' to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?' 43 And Simon answering said, `I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;' and he said to him, `Rightly thou didst judge.'
  • Mic 7:19 : 19 He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
  • Eph 6:24 : 24 The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third `generation', and on a fourth.'
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
  • Ezek 36:29-32 : 29 And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you. 30 And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, So that ye receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations. 31 And ye have remembered your ways that `are' evil, And your doings that `are' not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

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    48And he said to her, `Thy sins have been forgiven;'

    49and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?'

    50and he said unto the woman, `Thy faith have saved thee, be going on to peace.'

  • Luke 7:37-46
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    37and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,

    38and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

    39And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind `is' the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

    40And Jesus answering said unto him, `Simon, I have something to say to thee;' and he saith, `Teacher, say on.'

    41`Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;

    42and they not having `wherewith' to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

    43And Simon answering said, `I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;' and he said to him, `Rightly thou didst judge.'

    44And having turned unto the woman, he said to Simon, `Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; water for my feet thou didst not give, but this woman with tears did wet my feet, and with the hairs of her head did wipe;

    45a kiss to me thou didst not give, but this woman, from what `time' I came in, did not cease kissing my feet;

    46with oil my head thou didst not anoint, but this woman with ointment did anoint my feet;

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    8what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.

    9Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of -- for a memorial of her.'

  • 7`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

  • 20and he having seen their faith, said to him, `Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

  • 4and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

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    12for she having put this ointment on my body -- for my burial she did `it'.

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    9for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'

    10And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;

  • 23if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.'

  • 2and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

  • 27and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

  • 48and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

  • 28`Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil,

  • 7there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).

  • 7Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

  • 5and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

  • 31Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

  • 32then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me,

  • 37`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

  • 47And the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently;

  • 5for which is easier? to say, The sins have been forgiven to thee; or to say, Rise, and walk?

  • 3Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

  • 10And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven `it', because of you -- in the person of Christ -- `I forgive it,'

  • 32and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

  • 23which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

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    21Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him -- till seven times?'

    22Jesus saith to him, `I do not say to thee till seven times, but till seventy times seven.

  • 39And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

  • 14`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who `is' in the heavens;

  • 1By David. -- An Instruction. O the happiness of him whose transgression `is' forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

  • 3And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;

  • 10`He who is faithful in the least, `is' also faithful in much; and he who in the least `is' unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

  • 9which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?