And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.įor if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.įorgive us our debts (the fifth petition) does not mean that believers need to ask daily for justification, since believers are justified forever from the moment of initial saving faith (Rom. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Here the psalm focuses on the inner condition that the ceremony points to. 19:19) come from the ceremonial system, where they refer to rites that allow a person to come safely into God’s presence. The plea for mercy here is a humble one, based entirely on God’s mercy, frankly recognizing that the worshiper does not deserve it. 34:6–7), with its focus on his grace and kindness. The terms mercy and steadfast love, as well as transgressions, iniquity, and sin, all evoke God’s proclamation of his own name (Ex. The psalm opens with an appeal to God for forgiveness. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin! Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
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Take a 1-minute survey to join our mailing list and receive a free ebook in the format of your choosing. Get a free copy of the ebook ‘What Is the Gospel?’ by telling us a little bit about yourself! 8) reveal that this is an application of Ex. 12) are names for what God forgives in Ex. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
32:13), and finally he quotes God’s own description of his character to prove that he ought to forgive (Ex. He reminds God that he promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the land (cf. He points out that, were God to fulfill his threat to annihilate Israel, the nations would say that the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land (cf. Moses prays here, as he did after the making of the golden calf (Exodus 32), acting, as often in the Pentateuch, as a covenant mediator (cf. The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ Be encouraged from God's word with these verses and commentary adapted from the ESV Study Bible. The Bible offers us specific counsel for what to do when we recognize our sin and a need for rescue-go to God and seek forgiveness.
This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series.
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