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A brief discussion on what forgiveness is
forgiveness
The freeing of a person from guilt and its consequences, including punishment; usually as an act of favour, compassion or love, with the aim of restoring a broken personal relationship. Forgiveness can involve both the remission of punishment and the cancellation of debts
3899 The Constant Security As Punishment
In Abyssinia, when a man is convicted of an offence for which he has to pay a fine, he must find a friend who will offer himself as a security that the culprit will not run away till the fine be paid. The prisoner and the man who has the misfortune to be his friend are then chained leg-to-leg and turned loose to roam about, sharing one another’s misfortunes, and begging together the money necessary to pay the fine, until either they are able to regain their liberty or the death of one puts an end to their existence.
—E. A. De Cosson
14 aand My people 1who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
14 aand My people 1who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
aBless the LORD, O my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His bholy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And aforget none of His benefits;
3 Who apardons all your iniquities,
Who bheals all your diseases;
4 Who aredeems your life from the pit,
Who bcrowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;
5 Who asatisfies your 1years with good things,
So that your youth is brenewed like the eagle.
6 The LORD aperforms 1righteous deeds
And judgments for all who are boppressed.
7 He amade known His ways to Moses,
His bacts to the sons of Israel.
8 The LORD is acompassionate and gracious,
bSlow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
9 He awill not always strive with us,
Nor will He bkeep His anger forever.
10 He has anot dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high aas the heavens are above the earth,
So great is His lovingkindness toward those who 1fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He aremoved our transgressions from us.
5 And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, “1Son, ayour sins are forgiven.”
6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; awho can forgive sins 1but God alone?”
13 When you were adead 1in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He bmade you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
14 having canceled out athe certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and bHe has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 When He had 1adisarmed the brulers and authorities, He amade a public display of them, having ctriumphed over them through 2Him.
13.140 ἀφίημιk; ἀπολείπωc: to leave it to someone to do something, with the implication of distancing oneself from the event—‘to let, to allow, to leave it to.’
40.8 ἀφίημιf; ἄφεσιςa, εως f; ἀπολύωe: to remove the guilt resulting from wrongdoing—‘to pardon, to forgive, forgiveness.’ἀφίημιf: ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν ‘forgive us the wrongs that we have done’ Mt 6:12.
“But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your abook which You have written!”