Verse 47

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."

Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love Him, because he first loved us.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
  • Luke 5:20-21 : 20 Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." 21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
  • Luke 7:39 : 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
  • Luke 7:42-43 : 42 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" 43 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
  • Mic 7:19 : 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.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
  • Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 36:29-32 : 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. 30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.