Thematic Bible: To backsliders

I will arise, and go unto my father, and will say unto him - Father! I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine, - Make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came unto his own father. Now, while yet he was holding afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and, running, fell upon his neck, and tenderly kissed him.

Sufficient, unto such a one, the punishment itself which was inflicted by the many; So that, on the contrary, ye should forgive and encourage, lest, by any means, by his excessive grief, such a one should be swallowed up. Wherefore, I beseech you, assure him, of love;