| 1 Kin. 8:46-52 | "When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near; yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness'; and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who lead them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name; then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their *cause (justice), and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace), that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You." |
| Matt. 18:22-35 | Jesus shared an example of a king who wanted to settle accounts. One servant owed him ten thousand talents ($218,400,000. in silver) so his master said to sell him, his wife and children to pay the debt, but the servant pleaded with him and the master was moved with compassion, and forgave him all. This servant found a fellow servant who owed him a *hundred denarii (100 days' wages or $320.00); and though his fellow servant begged him, he threw him into prison till he should pay. The fellow servants told their master and he said to him, "...You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?" (vs. 32-33) The servant was delivered to the torturers until he paid. So will be done to us if we do not forgive our brother his trespasses. |
