Matthew 18:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt.

Cross References

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Nehemiah 9:17

they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he could no longer bear to see Israel suffer.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.

Matthew 18:28

But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him by the throat he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’

Matthew 18:32

Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.

Luke 7:42

When they could not pay, he canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?”

Luke 7:43

Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.” And Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.”