Forgive

Forgive

Three Greek words are translated “forgive,” and one is translated “forgiveness.”

Focusing on the most common Greek word translated “forgive,” it is also translated cry, forsake, lay aside, leave, let alone, omit, put away, remit, suffer, and yield up.  The word translated forgiveness is from the same root.  The sense is more a picture of casting something away or making something of no importance any longer.  The implications of that casting away or demoting is determined by the context.  In many cases, the English translation obscures the visual.

Translations other than “forgive”:

  • Mark 15:37, Matthew 27:50 Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed His last.
  • Matthew 26:56, Mark 14:50 Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.
  • Mark 1:18, Luke 5:11 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
  • Mark 7:8 Laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men.
  • Matthew 5:24 Leave your gift there before the altar and go your way.  First be reconciled to your brother.
  • Matthew 18:12 If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray
  • Matthew 23:23 These you ought to have done without leaving the others undone.
  • Mark 12:19 If a man dies and leaves his wife behind…
  • Luke 19:44 They will not leave in you one stone upon another.
  • John 14:18 I will not leave you orphans.
  • John 14:27 Peace I leave with you.
  • John 16:28 I leave the world and go to the Father.
  • John 16:32 You will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave me alone.
  • 1 Corinthians 7:13 Let her not divorce
  • Matthew 4:11 The devil left
  • John 10:12 The hireling … leaves the sheep and flees.
  • Luke 10:30 …leaving him half dead.
  • Romans 1:27 Likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the women…
  • Hebrews 6:1 Leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ…
  • Matthew 7:4, Luke 6:42 Let me remove the speck from your eye…
  • Matthew 8:22, Luke 9:60 Let the dead bury their own dead.
  • Matthew 13:30 Let them both grow together until the harvest.
  • Matthew 15:14 Let them alone.  They are blind leaders of the blind.
  • Matthew 27:49, Mark 15:36 Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come and save Him.
  • Mark 7:27 Let the children be filled first…
  • Mark 11:6, John 18:8 So they let them go.
  • Luke 13:8 Let it alone this year also and I will dig around it and fertilize it.
  • John 11:44 Loose him [Lazarus] and let him go.
  • John 11:48 If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him.
  • John 12:7 Let her alone, for she has kept this for the day of My burial.
  • Matthew 3:15 Permit it to be so now, … to fulfill all righteousness.
  • Matthew 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16 Let the little children come to me.
  • Matthew 23:13 …nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Mark 7:12 …then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother.
  • Mark 11:16 And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the Temple.
  • Revelation 11:9 Do not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.
  • Mark 1:34 He did not allow the demons to speak.
  • Mark 5:19 But Jesus did not permit him…
  • Mark 5:37, Luke 8:51 He did not permit anyone to follow Him…
  • Luke 12:39 He would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Forgive:

  • Matthew 6:12 – 15, Luke 11:4 The Lord’s prayer
  • Matthew 9:2 – 6, Mark 2:5 – 10, Luke 5:20 – 24 Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.
  • Matthew 12:31 – 32, Mark 3:28 – 29, Luke 12:10 Blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
  • Matthew 18:21 How often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him?
  • Matthew 18:27, 32, 35 So My heavenly Father will do to you…who does not forgive his brother.
  • Mark 4:12 Quoting Isaiah
  • Mark 11:25 – 26 … forgive him, that your heavenly Father forgive you
  • Luke 7:47 – 48 Her sins, which are many, are forgiven…
  • Luke 17:3 – 4 If your brother sins, rebuke him and if he repents, forgive him.
  • Luke 23:34 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
  • John 20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven…
  • Acts 8:22 …if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
  • James 5:15 If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
  • 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
  • 1 John 2:12 I write to you … because your sins are forgiven.

Forgiveness:

  • Matthew 26:28 … which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
  • Mark 1:4, Luke 3:3 …baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
  • Mark 3:29 Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
  • Luke 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation…by the remission of their sins.
  • Luke 4:18 Quoting Isaiah
  • Luke 24:47 …that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name.
  • Acts 2:38 Repent and…be baptize upon the name of Jesus Christ into the remission of sins
  • Acts 5:31 …to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 10:43 …whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.
  • Acts 13:38 …through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 26:18 …that they may receive forgiveness of sins.
  • Ephesians 1:7 Through Him we have redemption …and forgiveness of sins.
  • Colossians 1:14 …in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
  • Hebrews 9:22 Without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
  • Hebrews 10:18 Where there is no remission, there is no longer an offering for sin.