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14 “For if you forgive others[a] their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

Proper Fasting

16 “When[b] you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive[c] so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth,[d] they have their reward!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:14 tn Here ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) is used in a generic sense: “people, others.”
  2. Matthew 6:16 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
  3. Matthew 6:16 tn Here the term “disfigure” (employed in a number of translations) was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of physical mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”
  4. Matthew 6:16 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amēn), I say to you.”