Matthew 6:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 [a]If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you.(A) 15 But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.(B)
Teaching About Fasting. 16 “When you fast,[b] do not look gloomy like the hypocrites. They neglect their appearance, so that they may appear to others to be fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.
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- 6:14–15 These verses reflect a set pattern called “Principles of Holy Law.” Human action now will be met by a corresponding action of God at the final judgment.
- 6:16 The only fast prescribed in the Mosaic law was that of the Day of Atonement (Lv 16:31), but the practice of regular fasting was common in later Judaism; cf. Didache 9:1.
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