Matthew 6:14

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For if ye forgive men their trespasses - If ye forgive others when they offend or injure you. Your heavenly Father will also forgive you - Th...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(4) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: (4) They that forgive wrongs, to them sins are forgiven, but...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The fulfilled Law in Relation to the Life of the Pharisees. Mt. only, though the digression on Prayer ( Matthew 6:7-15 ) has parallels in Lk. M...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

if. Implying. contingency. Greek. ean (with Subj.) See App-118. Forgiveness was conditional in that dispensation of the kingdom. trespasses . l...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here Christ only explains the reason why that condition was added, Forgive us, as we forgive The reason is, that God will not be ready to he...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1319 A FORGIVING SPIRIT NECESSARY TO OUR ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD Matthew 6:14-15 . For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: If ye forgive men - He who shows mercy to men receives mercy from...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For if ye forgive, &c.— From what our Lord here says, we are not to imagine that the forgiving of injuries will entitle us to pardon: it only p...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: For if ye forgive men ...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expec...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Maxims for prayer, and the Lord's Prayer . Perhaps the most significant v. of this section is Matthew 6:8 , 'Your Father knoweth what things ye hav...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The earthly treasure and the heavenly treasure. When do we lay up 'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms ( Matthew 6:2 ), or pray ( Matthew 6:...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The condition implied in the Prayer itself is more distinctly asserted. It is, as we have seen, not an arbitrary condition, but the result of the ete...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

How to Pray and How to Fast Matthew 6:9-18 This might more fitly be termed the “disciples' prayer.” As we tread its stately aisles, we cannot b...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. We must not suppose from those expressions at the clos...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

FOURFOLD POWER ‘Thine is … the power.’ Matthew 6:13 As we travel back into the past with its temptations, its failures, and its scant victor...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE GRAND DOXOLOGY ‘For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen.’ Matthew 6:13 As the Lord’s Prayer began by aski...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For if ye forgive men their trespasses ,.... Christ here refers to the petition in Matthew 6:12 which is enforced with this reason and argument, "...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: Ver. 14. For if ye forgive men their trespasses ] Our Saviour...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you We are not to infer from this, that the forgiving of injuries alone...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we ex...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Their Religious Exercises Are To Be Known Only To The Father And Not To Men (6:1-18). We will now, therefore, initially consider together the firs...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

How To Pray - The Lord's Prayer (6:9-15). The Lord's Prayer ( Matthew 6:9-15 ). We should note in using the description ‘The Lord's Prayer' that...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

For if you forgive men their trespasses, Your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, Neither will...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:1 . Alms .— Righteousness (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. T...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 6:5 . And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners o...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had...
The Biblical Illustrator

If ye forgive men. Mutual forgiveness I. All mankind as transgressors are deeply indebted to God’s law. II. That if ever man be saved it mus...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , n...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, a special command of the Lord being issued in this instance on account of the significance attaching...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A necessary warning: For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:10 ; Colossians 3:13 ; Ephesians 4:32 ; James 2:13 ; Matthew 18:21-35 ; Matthew 6:12 ; Matthew 7:2 ; Mark 11:25 ; Mark 11:26 ; Pro...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." Th...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

God's Forgiveness for Sins Matthew 6:14-15 ; Matthew 18:21-35 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question which the words of our first text propound,...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Mark 11:25 .

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

Related Commentaries of Matthew 6:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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