Matthew 6: 7-15
The prayer Jesus gave the apostles when they asked Him to teach them how to pray is what we know now as "The Lords' Prayer" or "The Our Father"
Jesus lets them know if they don't forgive they will not be forgiven. The reason I focus on this is because it is in this prayer that we are in communion with the Divine. We are acting with the Will of God. God desires that we all find His love and peace, and forgiving our actions and the actions of others unites us to each other in peace.
It means that Jesus recognizes that the anger, guilt, shame, desire for retaliation or vengeance that can grow out of this non forgiving and hateful position leads us to a downward spiral and can ultimately end in violence and even death, our own death or death of another. We start with Love and end with Love.
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