Matthew 18:35
New International Version
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

New Living Translation
“That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters from your heart.”

English Standard Version
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

Berean Standard Bible
That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

Berean Literal Bible
Thus also My Heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your heart."

King James Bible
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

New King James Version
“So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

New American Standard Bible
My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

NASB 1995
“My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

NASB 1977
“So shall My heavenly Father also do to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

Legacy Standard Bible
My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your hearts.”

Amplified Bible
My heavenly Father will also do the same to [every one of] you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

Christian Standard Bible
So also my heavenly Father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So My heavenly Father will also do to you if each of you does not forgive his brother from his heart.”

American Standard Version
So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So my Father who is in Heaven will do to you unless each of you forgives his brother his offenses from your heart.

Contemporary English Version
That is how my Father in heaven will treat you, if you don't forgive each of my followers with all your heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

English Revised Version
So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That is what my Father in heaven will do to you if each of you does not sincerely forgive other believers."

Good News Translation
And Jesus concluded, "That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."

International Standard Version
This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother from your hearts."

Literal Standard Version
so also My heavenly Father will do to you, if you may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.”

Majority Standard Bible
That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother his trespasses from your heart.”

New American Bible
So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.”

NET Bible
So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart."

New Revised Standard Version
So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

New Heart English Bible
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you do not each forgive your brother his trespasses from your heart."

Webster's Bible Translation
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do to you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

Weymouth New Testament
"In the same way my Heavenly Father will deal with you, if you do not all of you forgive one another from your hearts."

World English Bible
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Young's Literal Translation
so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Unforgiving Servant
34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed. 35That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

Cross References
Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 6:15
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.

Matthew 18:34
In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

Mark 11:26
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.


Treasury of Scripture

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also to you, if you from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

do.

Matthew 6:12,14,15
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors…

Matthew 7:1,2
Judge not, that ye be not judged…

Proverbs 21:13
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

from.

Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Jeremiah 3:10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

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Matthew 18
1. Jesus warns his disciples to be humble and harmless,
7. to avoid offenses,
10. and not to despise the little ones;
15. teaches how we are to deal with our brothers when they offend us,
21. and how often to forgive them;
23. which he sets forth by a parable of the king who took account of his servants,
32. and punished him who showed no mercy to his fellow servant.














(35) My heavenly Father.--The adjective is slightly different in form from that commonly used, suggesting rather the thought of the "Father in heaven."

Do also unto you.--The words cut through the meshes of many theological systems by which men have deceived themselves. Men have trusted in the self-assurance of justification, in the absolving words of the priest, as though they were final and irreversible. The parable teaches that the debt may come back. If faith does not work by love, it ceases to justify. If the man bind himself once again to his old evil nature, the absolution is annulled. The characters of the discharge are traced (to use another similitude) as in sympathetic ink, and appear or disappear according to the greater or less glow of the faith and love of the pardoned debtor.

From your hearts.--A verbal, formal forgiveness does not satisfy the demands of the divine righteousness. God does not so forgive, neither should man.

Every one his brother their trespasses.--The two last words are not in some of the best MSS., and have probably been added to make the verse correspond with Matthew 6:14-15.

Verse 35. - So likewise. This points to the moral of the parable intended by Christ. It is not a lesson against ingratitude, but against unmercifulness. "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." But want of charity makes a man incapable of retaining God's pardon; the Holy Spirit cannot abide in an unforgiving soul. My heavenly Father. He says, not "your" (Matthew 6:14, 26), nor "our," but "my heavenly Father," the Father of Christ, the God of all mercies. He cannot join himself in mention with such as are not children of God. From your hearts. Forgiveness must be real, sincere, not pretended, nor merely outward. There must not only be no outward act of revenge, but no malice in the heart, no storing up of evil passions for future outlet, as occasion may arise. The heart must be in harmony with the conduct, and both must evidence a true spirit of charity. This alone enables one to continue in a state of grace and in reconciliation with God; this alone makes prayer acceptable; and we are assured that, as our heavenly Father requires us to forgive without limit, so his mercy is infinite and will be extended to us in measure unbounded. Their trespasses. These words are omitted by many manuscripts, the Vulgate, and most modern editors; and they are not required by the sense. They have been, perhaps, added to obviate a certain abruptness in the conclusion of the parable.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
That is how
Οὕτως (Houtōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3779: Thus, so, in this manner. Or (referring to what precedes or follows).

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Heavenly
οὐράνιος (ouranios)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3770: In heaven, belonging to heaven, heavenly, from heaven. From ouranos; celestial, i.e. Belonging to or coming from the sky.

Father
Πατήρ (Patēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

will treat
ποιήσει (poiēsei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

each of
ἕκαστος (hekastos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1538: Each (of more than two), every one. As if a superlative of hekas; each or every.

you,
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

unless
ἐὰν (ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

you forgive
ἀφῆτε (aphēte)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 863: From apo and hiemi; to send forth, in various applications.

[your]
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

brother
ἀδελφῷ (adelphō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

from
ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

heart.”
καρδιῶν (kardiōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 2588: Prolonged from a primary kar; the heart, i.e. the thoughts or feelings; also the middle.


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