Daily Bible GNT July 30 Verses

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?"

²²"No, not seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy times seven, ²³because the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants' accounts. ²⁴He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. ²⁵The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt. ²⁶The servant fell on his knees before the king. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay you everything!' ²⁷The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.

²⁸"Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he said. ²⁹His fellow servant fell down and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back!' ³⁰But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt. ³¹When the other servants saw what had happened, they were very upset and went to the king and told him everything. ³²So he called the servant in. 'You worthless slave!' he said. 'I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to. ³³You should have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you.' ³⁴The king was very angry, and he sent the servant to jail to be punished until he should pay back the whole amount."

³⁵And Jesus concluded, "That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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