OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 28:2

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Forgive your neighbor the hurt that he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.

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Verse 2. Forgive. This charity enforces, when the offender is penitent, if the remission of punishment be not contrary to justice and discipline. Worthington.—Matthew 6:12,. and 18:32. Lu. 6:37. We all stand in need of pardon. Calmet.

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