Matthew 6:12 (WEB)
Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
Catechism · 4
The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
“But the apostle John also says: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." and the Lord himself taught us to pray: "Forgive us our trespasses,"” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 11:4; Mt 6:12.
“Scripture and the Fathers insist above all on three forms, fasting, prayer, and almsgiving,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Tob 12:8; Mt 6:1-18.
The Moral Law
“Its prayer is the Our Father.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 6:9-13; Lk 11:2-4.
The Lord's Prayer
“St. Luke presents a brief text of five petitions, while St. Matthew gives a more developed version of seven petitions.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 6:9-13.
Fathers and councils · 64
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For this reason also He has taught us to say in prayer, “And forgive us our debts;” since indeed He is our Father, whose debtors we were, having transgressed His commandments.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
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Jerome
“If you reply that this was said before the Passion, we certainly say after the Passion, in the Lord’s prayer, “Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“How have we been able in our daily prayers to say “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,” whilst our feelings have been at variance with our words, and our petition inconsistent with our conduct?” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Matt. 6:12) And in like manner we have peace between ourselves, because we mutually trust one another, that we mutually love one another.” — the author cites it
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“(Matt. 6:12) If thou forgivest, thou art forgiven: approach confidently; it is bread, not poison.” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.8Conference XX
“…will, so that we can infer from our own feelings the forgiveness of our offences, when we say to Him: “Forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.18Conference XXIII
“…to the saints and perfect cannot apply to the wicked and unbelievers, He bade this to be inserted: “And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
“I know that she acted mercifully, and from the heart forgave her debtors their debts; do Thou also forgive her debts, whatever she contracted during so many years since the water of salvation.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12. Augustin here as elsewhere applies this petition in the Lord’s Prayer to the forgiveness of sins after baptism. He does so constantly. For…
Read the whole comment“I have “over-leaped” a great deal: but still do I “beat my breast,” and say, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“He hath treasured on earth, his heart doth not withdraw from earth: he hath treasured in heaven, his heart from heaven doth not come down: for the Lord saith plainly, “Where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For what there wilt thou do, when thou art going to pray, and coming to that same verse?” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12. So Oxf. mss.
Read the whole comment“…and sink the ship, pumping it out daily, fasting, praying, doing almsdeeds, saying with pure heart, “Forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors” —saying such words walk thou secure, and exult in the way, sing in the way.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“What are these usuries but sins, which are also called debts?” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“…we lust against the flesh, that we be not overcome in our fight; through the efficacy of the Lord’s Prayer, wherein we say, “Forgive us our trespasses.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For all these daily sins then what is our hope, save to say with humble heart in the Lord’s Prayer, while we defend not our sins, but confess them, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;” and to “have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,” that He may be “the propitiation for our sins”?” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And having set down certain things first, He laid down this too to be said by the leaders of the sheep, the chief members of the Shepherd and Gatherer of the one flock; even they learnt to say, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For we have made an agreement with our God in prayer, that if we would that He should forgive us our sins, we also should forgive the sins which may have been committed against us.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“…even unto the bounds of it, to pray, and in the prayer itself hath admonished them to say, “And forgive us our debts, even as we also forgive our debtors:” where, by this which we seek, He shews what also we should remember that we are.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment“…and mortifiers however unconquered of the works of the flesh, some wounds of sins, for the healing of which they may say daily, “Forgive us our debts:” against the same vices, and against the devil the prince and king of vices, striving with much greater watchfulness and keenness by the very prayer, that his…” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment“They who have done ill cry unto Him, “Forgive us our debts;” He hears, He pardons.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment“Even now the one is done, when we are heard, saying, “Forgive us our debts;” but the other, when we are heard, saying, “Lead us not into temptation.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12, 13
Read the whole comment“To these are added those other sins also, for which the daily cry of the whole Church is, “Forgive us our debts:” and, that we should not think spiritual persons exempt from these, not any one soever of carnal persons, nor any one soever of spiritual persons themselves,…” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment““Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“And therefore pardon must be sought for such thoughts too, and the breast must be smitten, and it must be said, “Forgive us our debts;” and what follows must be done, and must be joined in our prayer, “As we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment““And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“Again, on Matt. vi. on the Lord’s Prayer.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Again on the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. vi. To the Competentes.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Again, on the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. vi. To the Competentes.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And amongst the other petitions we ask this, saying, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And therefore do we daily beg, daily knock at the ears of God by prayer, daily prostrate ourselves and say, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“He hath a good conscience, no sins conceived in the heart solicit him, yet, though his conscience be good, because of the daily sins of human life, he saith to God, “forgive us our debts;” seeing he hath done what comes next, “as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“Say, yea say to thy soul, “Thou art still in this life, still bearest about a frail flesh, still “doth the corruptible body press down the soul;” still after the entireness of remission hast thou received the remedy of prayer; for still, whilst thy weaknesses are being healed, dost thou say, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And amongst the other things which He commanded them to pray for, He appointed this also, “Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“Witness the prayer of the whole city of God in its pilgrim state, for it cries to God by the mouth of all its members, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“To the same purpose, they say, is the daily petition we make in the Lord’s prayer, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For, say they, as there is no day on which Christians ought not to use this prayer, so there is no sin of any kind which, though committed every day, is not remitted when we say, “Forgive us our debts,” if we take care to fulfill what follows, “as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“But yet we are to know this, that however valorously we resist our vices, and however successful we are in overcoming them, yet as long as we are in this body we have always reason to say to God, Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And it is on account of this evil, which never ceases to creep in while we retain this mortal vesture, that the co-heirs of Christ themselves say, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment“…provided that as truly as he says, “Forgive us our debts” (for there is no want of debts to be forgiven), so truly does he say, “as we forgive our debtors;” that is, provided he does what he says he does: for to forgive a man who asks for pardon, is really to give alms.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12
Read the whole comment“But when we say, “Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors: and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” who does not see that we ask for blessings that have reference to the wants of this present life?” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 11–13
Read the whole comment“Before ye approach the altar, consider well what ye are to say: “Forgive us our debts, even as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And what else do we ask, when we say, “Lead us not into temptation,” but that he who thus lies in wait for us, or assails us from without, may fail on every side to effect an entrance, and be unable to overcome us either by fraud or force?” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“And every day, therefore, is He who intercedeth for us, washing our feet: and that we, too have daily need to be washing our feet, that is ordering aright the path of our spiritual footsteps, we acknowledge even in the Lord’s prayer, when we say, “Forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And we there saw it to be understood that a man is indeed wholly washed in baptism; but while thereafter he liveth in this present world, and with the feet of his human passions treadeth on this earth, that is, in his life-intercourse with others, he contracts enough to call forth the prayer, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“…sin; which He thereafter washes away by interceding for us, when we pray the Father, who is in heaven, to forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“And even when we are asking aright, let us ask Him at the same time not to do what we ask amiss; for there is reference to this also in the Lord’s Prayer, when we say, “Lead us not into temptation.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 9–13.
Read the whole comment“For He, who is altogether without sin, has no elements of discord in Himself; while the peace we possess, meanwhile, is such that in the midst of it we have still to be saying, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
Read the whole comment“So does the Church act in blessed hope through this troublous life; and this Church symbolized in its generality, was personified in the Apostle Peter, on account of the primacy of his apostleship.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
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John Chrysostom
“…let us act towards our fellow-servants as we desire our Master to act towards us: for (we say), “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” ( Matt. vi. 12.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12. [R.V., “have forgiven our debtors,” following a different and better supported reading than that accepted by Chrysostom.—R.]
Read the whole comment“For He taught men to say, “Forgive us our debts, like as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…5:23] otherwhiles He bids him that has suffered the wrong to forgive his neighbour; as where he says, “Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” [Matt 6:12]” — the author cites it
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After supply of food, next pardon of sin is asked for, that he who is fed of God may live in God, and not only the present and passing life be provided for, but the eternal also; whereunto we may come, if we receive…
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With this weapon the Pelagian heretics received their deathblow, who dare to say that a righteous man is free altogether from sin in this life, and that of such is at this present time composed a Church, “having…
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That this prayer is meant for the faithful, both the laws of the Church teach, and the beginning of the prayer which instructs us to call God Father. In thus bidding the faithful pray for forgiveness of sin, He shews…
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He then who taught us to pray for our sins, has promised us that His fatherly mercy and pardon shall ensue. But He has added a rule besides, binding us under the fixed condition and responsibility, that we are to ask…
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That good which in our penitence we ask of God, we should first turn and bestow on our neighbour.
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This is not said of debts of money only, but of all things in which any sins against us, and among these also of money, because that he sins against you, who does not return money due to you, when he has whence he…
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With what hope then does he pray, who cherishes hatred against another by whom he has been wronged? As he prays with a falsehood on his lips, when he says, I forgive, and does not forgive, so he asks indulgence of…
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Forasmuch as this so great goodness, namely, to forgive debts, and to love our enemies, cannot be possessed by so great a number as we suppose to be heard in the use of this prayer; without doubt the terms of this…
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Leo the Great
“…worthy of punishment, that he may with confidence make use of the clause in the Lord’s prayer and say, “Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 12, 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“For when we say, in accordance with the Lord’s teaching, “Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors,” we ought with the whole heart to carry out what we say.” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 12.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore also he righteously prays, saying, “Forgive us; for we also forgive.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12; Luke xi. 4.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the Gospel, in the daily prayer: “Forgive us our debts, even as we forgive our debtors.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 12.
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