And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?

And seeing their faith, He said to him, Man, your sins are forgiven you.

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?

And Jehovah passed before him and proclaimed: Jehovah, Jehovah Mighty God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth,

keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and the sons' sons to the third and the fourth generation.

Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide atonement for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.

I will deliver you from all your defilements. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.

Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.

He will return and have compassion on us; He will subdue our iniquities. And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins.

Moreover the Law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray. Neither prostitutes, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from every sin.

Simon answered and said, I suppose the one whom he forgave more. And He said to him, You have rightly judged.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I am deeply fond of You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.

He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, are you deeply fond of Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, Are you deeply fond of Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You discern all things; You know that I am deeply fond of You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.

For the love of Christ holds us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full true knowledge and all discernment,

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

We love Him because He first loved us.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.