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20 For[a] where two or three have been gathered-together in[b] My name, I am there in the midst of them”.

Always Forgive One Another From The Heart, As God Has Forgiven You

21 Then having come to Him, Peter said to Him, “Lord, how often[c] will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven-times?” 22 Jesus says to him, “I do not say to you up to seven-times, but up to seventy-times[d] [and][e] seven.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:20 The promised divine guidance is now made explicit.
  2. Matthew 18:20 Or, with reference to.
  3. Matthew 18:21 Peter is responding to v 15, ‘If he listens to you’.
  4. Matthew 18:22 That is, seventy-occasions, as also with ‘seven-times’ in v 21.
  5. Matthew 18:22 For a total of seventy-seven. Or, [times], making 490.

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