And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
And - `But.'
Be ye - `become' х ginesthe (G1096)] (Luke 7:42; Colossians 3:12-13).
Tender-hearted, х eusplangchnoi (G2155)] - with 'bowels of compassion,' Greek (1 Peter 3:8).
Forgiving one another - literally, 'yourselves:' in forgiving one another, it is yourselves that you forgive (Origen).
Even as. God has shown Himself 'kind, tender-hearted, and forgiving to you;' it is but just that you in turn should be so to your fellow-men, who have not erred against you in the degree that you have against God (Matthew 18:33). God for Christ's sake - Greek, 'God in Christ' (2 Corinthians 5:19). It is in giving Christ as a propitiation for our sins that God vouchsafes forgiveness to us. It cost God the death of His Son, as man, to forgive us. It costs us nothing to forgive our fellow-man.
Hath forgiven - Greek, 'forgave you:' a past fact. God has, once for all, forgiven sin in Christ.
You. So 'Aleph (') A G f g, Vulgate; against Delta, reading 'us.'