Thematic Bible: To backsliders
Thematic Bible
Mercy » Should be shown » To backsliders
I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.' And he arose, and went to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran unto him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
It is sufficient unto the same man that he was rebuked of many. So that now contrariwise ye ought to forgive him and comfort him: lest that same person should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness. Wherefore I exhort you, that love may have strength over him.