We Should Not Keep Score

“THEN PETER CAME TO HIM AND ASKED, LORD HOW OFTEN
SHALL MY BROTHER SIN AGAINST ME, AND I FORGIVE HIM?
UP TO SEVEN TIMES? JESUS SAID TO HIM, “I DO NOT SAY
TO YOU, UP TO SEVEN TIMES, BUT UP TO SEVENTY TIMES
SEVEN.”
( MATTHEW 18:21-22 *NKJV )

Peter asked this question because the Rabbis’ taught that one
should only forgive another three times. That was based on what
was written in the Book of AMOS, Verses 1:3,6,9,11,13 & 2:1,4,6.

Amos 1:3
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds1 of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of eJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years2 before the earthquake.

Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

2 And he said:
g“The Lord roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
hthe pastures of the shepherds mourn,
and the itop of jCarmel withers.”
3 Thus says the Lord:
k“For three transgressions of lDamascus,
and for four, lI will not revoke the punishment,3
because they have threshed mGilead
with threshing sledges of iron.

Amos 1:6
Thus says the LORD:

“For three transgressions of Gaza,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they carried into exile a whole people
to deliver them up to Edom.

Amos 1:9
Thus says the LORD:

“For three transgressions of Tyre,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

Amos 1:11
Thus says the LORD:

“For three transgressions of Edom,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because he pursued his brother with the sword
and cast off all pity,
and his anger tore perpetually,
and he kept his wrath forever.

Amos 1:13
Thus says the LORD:

“For three transgressions of the Ammonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead,
that they might enlarge their border.

Now Peter was being generous when asking Jesus about
seven times, however Our Savior answered seventy times seven,
meaning that we should not even keep track of how many times
we forgive others.

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