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Matthew 18:35 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.” "
Matthew 18:35
Verse in Context
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33 Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
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Matthew 18:1
"In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”"
Matthew 18:2
"Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them"
Matthew 18:3
"and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."
Matthew 18:4
"Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."
Matthew 18:5
"Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,"
Matthew 18:6
"but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea."
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