Thematic Bible: Sometimes entirely remitted debts
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I, likewise, and my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and grain; let us now release them from this burden. Restore, I pray you, to them, today, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, and even the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. Then they said, We will return it and will require nothing of them; so we will do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests and caused them to sware that they should do according to this promise.
Then the lord of that slave was moved with compassion and loosed him and forgave him the debt.
And when they had nothing to pay, he released them both from their debt. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?