John 20:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ [Now having received the Holy Spirit, and being led and directed by Him] if you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Common English Bible

²³ If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you don’t forgive them, they aren’t forgiven.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.

John 20:23 Cross References

Matthew 16:19

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 18:18

Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

John 20:22

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:43

To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Acts 2:38

And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 5:4

in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Ephesians 2:20

built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

1 Timothy 1:20

among them Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.