1.你是甚麼,比你做了甚麼更重要。如果你和人的關係不對,神不要你的禮物。
「所以你在祭壇前獻禮物,若想起你的弟兄向你懷怨,就要把禮物留在壇前,先去與你的弟兄和好,然後來獻禮物。」(太5:23-24)
Therefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you, Leave your gift there before the altar, and first go and be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. -Mt.5:23-24
2.你願意人怎樣待你,你就怎麼待人,因為你有多少憐憫,神也就憐憫你多少。
「因為你們若赦免人的過犯,你們的天父也必赦免你們;你們若不赦免人的過犯,你們的父也必不赦免你們的過犯。」(太6:14-15)
For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; But if you do not forgive men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses. -Mt.6:14-15
3.一個沒心肝的人,總是忘記自己曾經欠下一屁股債,卻永遠記住別人欠他一塊錢。
「於是主人把他叫來,對他說,你這惡僕,因你央求我,我就把你一切所欠的都免了;你豈不應當憐憫和你同作奴僕的,像我憐憫你麼?」(太18:32-33)
Then his master called him to him and said to him, Evil slave, all that debt I forgave you, because you begged me. Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave even as I had mercy on you?-Mt.18:32-33
4.只能原諒別人一次,不是真正的原諒;同一天赦免一個人七次,只有神的恩慈和忍耐能做到。
「你們要小心,若是你的弟兄犯了罪,就責備他;他若悔改,就赦免他。若是他一天七次得罪你,又七次回轉,對你說,我悔改了,你總要赦免他。」(路17:3-4)
Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day and turns again to you seven times, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him. -Lu.17:3-4
5.人都是等人悔改了,才願意赦免他們;只有那一位在別人正要殺祂的時候,就已經赦免他們了。
「他們到了一個地方,名叫髑髏地,就在那裡將耶穌釘了十字架,也釘了那兩個犯人,一個在右邊,一個在左邊。當下耶穌說,父阿,赦免他們,因為他們所作的,他們不曉得。......」(路23:33-34)
And when they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. -Lu.23:33-34