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“To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also.”
Paul makes forgiveness reciprocal and communal, showing that restoration can require people to align their response rather than preserve separate grievances.
Source note: 2 Corinthians 2:10, King James Version; Paul continues instructions about forgiving and receiving a person who had caused sorrow.
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“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
Voice: Reported speaker · Jesus
The request for forgiveness is made in the middle of injury rather than after conditions become comfortable, giving the line its unusually demanding moral force.
Source note: Luke 23:34 in the King James Version.
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“Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
The promise expresses forgiveness as refusing to keep wrongdoing permanently active as the defining record of the relationship.
Source note: Hebrews 8:12 in the King James Version; concluding clause of the new-covenant promise.
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“Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:”
Voice: Reported speaker · Paul the Apostle
Forgiveness is announced as the central offer of the message, framing pardon as something proclaimed and received rather than concealed behind moral achievement.
Source note: Acts 13:38, King James Version; Paul’s speech at Antioch presents forgiveness as part of the message he is declaring to his listeners.
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“I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Voice: Reported speaker · The LORD
Pardon is paired with refusing to keep wrongdoing permanently present, making forgiveness a movement away from endless moral accounting toward restored relationship.
Source note: Jeremiah 31:34, King James Version; the promise appears in the description of a new covenant and includes forgiveness and no further remembrance of sin.
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“Ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him.”
Forgiveness here includes restoration: after discipline has done its work, the community is told not to leave the person crushed by sorrow.
Source note: 2 Corinthians 2:7 in the King James Version; excerpt from Paul’s instruction about receiving and comforting a repentant member.