Forgive - Mark 11:25 & Mt 6:14

 Mrk 11:25  AndG2532  whenG3752  ye standG4739  praying,G4336  forgive,G863  ifG1487  ye haveG2192  oughtG5100  againstG2596  any:G5100  thatG2443  yourG5216  FatherG3962  alsoG2532  whichG3588  is inG1722  heavenG3772  may forgiveG863  youG5213  yourG5216  trespasses.G3900


Forgive: G863   (Strong)

ἀφίημι

aphiēmi

af-ee'-ay-mee

From G575 and ἵημι hiēmi (to send; an intensive form of εἶμι eimi (to go)); to send forth, in various applications: - cry, forgive, forsake, lay aside, leave, let (alone, be, go, have), omit, put (send) away, remit, suffer, yield up.


Trespass: G3900   (Strong)

παράπτωμα

paraptōma

par-ap'-to-mah

From G3895; a side slip (lapse or deviation), that is, (unintentional) error or (wilful) transgression: - fall, fault, offence, sin, trespass.


Mat 6:14  ForG1063  ifG1437  ye forgiveG863  menG444  theirG846  trespasses,G3900  yourG5216  heavenlyG3770  FatherG3962  will alsoG2532  forgiveG863  you:G5213


Forgive: G863   (Strongaphiēmi

Trespass: G3900   (Strongparaptōma


My conclusion: 

The two verses have the same meanings on "forgive" and "trespass." 


Albert Barnes' Commentary on Matthew 6:14-15

For if ye forgive men their trespasses - If ye forgive others when they offend or injure you.

Your heavenly Father will also forgive you - This is constantly required in the Bible. See the notes at Mat 6:12. Our Saviour says we should forgive even if the offence be committed seventy times seven times, Mat 18:22

By this is meant, that when a man asks forgiveness, we are cordially and forever to pardon the offence; we are to declare our willingness to forgive him.

If he does not ask forgiveness, yet we are still to treat him kindly; not to harbor malice, not to speak ill of him, to be ready to do him good, and be always prepared to declare him forgiven when he asks it, and if we are not ready and willing to forgive him; we are assured that God will not forgive us.


Appendix: 

Albert Barnes' Commentary on Mat 6:12

Mat 6:12  AndG2532  forgiveG863  usG2254  ourG2257  debts,G3783  asG5613  weG2249  forgiveG863  ourG2257  debtors.G3781


ForgiveG863   (Strongaphiēmi

Debts: G3783   (Strong)

ὀφείλημα

opheilēma

of-i'-lay-mah

From (the alternate of) G3784something owed, that is, (figuratively) a due.; morally a fault: - debt.


And forgive us our debts ... - The word “debts” is used here figuratively.

It does not mean “literally” that we are “debtors to God,” but that our sins have a resemblance to debts. Debtors are those who are bound to others for some claim in commercial transactions; for something which we have had, and for which we are bound to pay according to contract. “Literally” there can be no such transaction between God and us. It must be used figuratively. We have not met the claims of law. We have violated its obligations. We are exposed to its penalty. We are guilty, and God only can forgive, in the same way as none but a “creditor” can forgive a debtor.

The word “debts” here, therefore, means “sins,” or offences against God - offences which none but God can forgive. In the parallel place in Luk 11:4, the word sins is used. The measure by which we may expect forgiveness is that which we use in reference to others See Psa 18:25-26; Mat 18:23; Mrk 11:26; Luk 11:4.

This is the invariable rule by which God dispenses pardon He that comes before him unwilling to forgive, harboring dark and revengeful thoughts, how can he expect that God will show him that mercy which he is unwilling to show to others? It is not, however, required that we should forgive “debts” in a pecuniary sense. 

To them we have a right, though they should not be pushed with an overbearing and oppressive spirit; not so as to sacrifice the feelings of mercy in order to secure the claims of justice. No one has a right to oppress; and when a debt cannot be paid, or when it would greatly distress a debtor’s wife and children, or a widow and an orphan, or when calamity has put it out of the power of an honest man to pay the debt, the spirit of Christianity requires that it should be forgiven. 

To such cases this petition in the Lord’s prayer doubtless extends. But it was probably intended to refer principally to injuries of character or person which we have received from others. If we cannot from the heart forgive them, we have the assurance that God will never forgive us.



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