give to the man who begs from you, and turn not away from him who wants to borrow.

and forgive us our debts as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors,

That is why the Realm of heaven may be compared to a king who resolved to settle accounts with his servants.

That is why the Realm of heaven may be compared to a king who resolved to settle accounts with his servants.

Well then, you should have handed my money to the bankers and I would have got my capital with interest when I came back.

If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return. No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

"There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five.

So he summoned every single one of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much are you owing to my master?'

Why then did you not put my money into the bank, so that I could have got it with interest when I came back?'

He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,